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| An Introduction to Sensation and Perception | |
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| Sensation and Perception | |
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| Why Study Sensation and Perception? | |
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| The Historical and Scientific Roots of Sensation and Perception | |
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| Approaches to the Study of Sensation and Perception | |
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| Physiological Perspective: Neuronal Communication | |
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| Summary | |
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| Psychophysics | |
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| Detection and the Absolute Threshold | |
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| Signal Detection Theory (SDT) | |
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| Subliminal Perception | |
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| The Difference Threshold | |
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| Fechner's Law | |
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| Stevens' Power Law | |
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| The Relativity of Psychophysical Judgments | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Visual System | |
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| The Physical Stimulus | |
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| Light Reception | |
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| Anatomy of the Vertebrate Eye | |
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| Variations in Eye Position: Mobility and Placement | |
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| Accommodation | |
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| Pupil Mobility | |
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| Eyeblinks | |
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| Eye and Brain | |
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| Receptive Fields | |
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| Summary | |
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| Fundamental Visual Functions and Phenomena | |
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| Scotopic and Photopic Vision | |
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| Dark Adaptation | |
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| Limits of Basic Visual Function | |
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| Acuity | |
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| Visual Angle | |
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| Eye Movements | |
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| Temporal Factors in Perception | |
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| Object Identification and Localization: Focal and Ambient Systems | |
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| Summary | |
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| Color Vision | |
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| The Function of Color Vision | |
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| The Nature of Color | |
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| Color Mixture | |
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| Afterimages | |
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| Memory Color | |
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| Color Constancy | |
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| Theories of Color Perception | |
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| Defective Color Vision | |
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| Subjective Colors | |
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| Summary | |
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| Visual Pattern and from Perception: Basic Processes of Perceptual Organization | |
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| Contour and Contrast Perception | |
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| Spatial Frequency Analysis | |
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| Perceptual Processing | |
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| Summary | |
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| Higher Processes of Perceptual Organization | |
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| Figure-Ground Perception | |
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| The Gestalt Approach | |
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| Subjective Contours | |
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| Neural Basis of Perceptual Organization | |
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| Figural Orientation and Form Perception | |
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| Perceptual Set | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Perception of Movement | |
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| Motion Detectors | |
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| Movement Systems of the Eye | |
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| Optical Stimulation for Movement Perception | |
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| Biological Motion | |
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| Biological Motion Extracted from Point-Light Displays | |
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| Apparent Movement | |
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| The Prediction of Motion Paths | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Perception of Space: Monocular and Binocular Vision | |
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| Monocular Cues for Spatial Perception | |
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| Binocular Cues | |
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| The Interaction of Cues to Space | |
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| Summary | |
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| Constancy and Illusions | |
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| Perceptual Constancy | |
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| Visual Illusions | |
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| Transactionalism and the Ames Illusions | |
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| Illusions of Depth, Distance, and Constancy | |
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| The Moon Illusion | |
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| The Muller-Lyer Illusion | |
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| The Ponzo Illusion | |
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| The Poggendorff Illusion | |
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| The Horizontal-Vertical Illusion | |
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| Contrast Illusions | |
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| Ambiguous, Reversible, and Multistable Figures | |
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| Multiple Determinants of Illusions | |
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| Impossible Figures | |
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| Summary | |
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| Perceptual Development | |
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| Development of the Sensory System | |
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| Perception of the Newborn Human | |
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| Development of Perceptual-Motor Coordination | |
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| Perceptual Adaptation to Distorted Visual Stimulation | |
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| Vision and Aging | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Auditory System | |
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| The Physical Stimulus | |
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| Anatomy and Mechanisms of the Ear | |
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| Functioning of the Inner Ear | |
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| Auditory Pathology | |
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| Comparative Auditory Structures | |
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| Summary | |
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| Fundamental Auditory Functions and Phenomena | |
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| Intensity | |
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| Frequency | |
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| Hearing and Sound Duration | |
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| Effects of Multiple Tonal Stimulation | |
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| Subjective Tonal Attributes | |
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| Summary | |
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| Auditory Pattern Perception: Sound as Information | |
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| The Auditory Pathway and Central Structures | |
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| Auditory Space Perception | |
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| Perception of Music | |
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| Perception of Speech | |
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| General Issues in Speech Perception | |
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| Auditory Scene Analysis | |
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| Animal Communication | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Orienting Sense | |
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| Receptors for Orientation | |
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| Mammalian Orienting System | |
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| Motion Sickness | |
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| Other Mechanisms for Orientation | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Skin Senses | |
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| Functions of the Skin: Protection and Sensation | |
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| The Skin and The Brain | |
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| Touch and Pressure | |
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| Complex Touch | |
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| Kinesthesis | |
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| Haptic System | |
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| Temperature | |
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| Pain | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Chemical Sense of Taste | |
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| The Diversity and Origins of Chemoreception | |
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| Taste Primaries and the Chemical Stimulus | |
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| Anatomy and Physiology of Taste | |
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| Taste Thresholds | |
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| Adaptation | |
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| Taste Interactions | |
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| Taste Preferences and Taste Worlds | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Chemical Sense of Smell | |
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| Function of the Sense of Smell | |
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| Odor Quality | |
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| Anatomy and Physiology of the Olfactory System | |
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| Olfactory Coding | |
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| Olfactory Disorders | |
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| Odor Thresholds | |
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| Adaptation | |
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| Odor Preferences | |
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| Identification and Memory of Odors | |
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| Psychobiological Functions of Olfaction: Pheromones | |
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| The Common Chemical Sense | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Perception of Time | |
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| The Biological Basis of Time Perception | |
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| Cognitive Theories of Time Perception | |
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| Age and the Passage of Time | |
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| Time Perception and the Size of the Spatial Environment | |
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| Time and Distance: The Tau and Kappa Effects | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |