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See What I'm Saying The Extraordinary Powers of Our Five Senses

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ISBN-10: 0393067602

ISBN-13: 9780393067606

Edition: 2010

Authors: Lawrence D. Rosenblum

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University of California psychologist and researcher Lawrence D. Rosenblum explores the astonishing abilities of the five senses, abilities few of us even know we have. Drawing on groundbreaking insights into the brain’s neuroplasticity and integrative powers, including findings from his own research, Rosenblum examines how the brain uses the subtlest information to apprehend the world. A blind person, for example, can “see” through batlike echolocation; wine connoisseurs can actually taste the vintage of an obscure wine; pheromones can signal a lover’s compatibility; and an undetected odor can influence our behavior. Rosenblum takes us from the “beep” baseball fields where…    
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Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/22/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.60" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Lawrence D. Rosenblum, an award-winning Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, is the recipient of multiple National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health grants for his research on lipreading and multimodal integration and a grant from the National Federation of the Blind for his research on the audibility of hybrid cars. Rosenblum's work has been featured in The Economist, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and on National Public Radio. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Hearing
The Sounds of Silence
Perfect Pitches, Beeping Pitches
Smelling
You Smell like a Dog
Like Marvin Gaye for Your Nose
Tasting
Cold Leftovers with a Fine North Dakota Cabernet
Touching
Rubber Hands and Rubber Brains
Touching Speech and Feeling Rainbows
Seeing
Facing the Uncanny Valley
The Highest Form of Flattery
Multisensory Perception
See What I'm Saying
All of the Above
Epilogue
Notes
Photograph Credits
Index