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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 | |