Sensation and Perception

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ISBN: 9780534539641

ISBN-10: 0534539645

ISBN-13: 9780534539641

Edition: 6th 2002

Authors: E. Bruce Goldstein

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Long regarded as the gold standard in sensation and perception texts, E. Bruce Goldstein's SENSATION AND PERCEPTION has helped more than 100,000 students make the connection between perception and physiology. Goldstein has crafted an easier-to-understand, and more student-friendly book, without sacrificing the text's comprehensive examination of sensation and perception. Goldstein takes readers on an intriguing journey through their senses, and chronicles scientists' efforts to understand the fascinating behind the scenes activity that allows us to perceive.With balanced coverage of all senses, this book offers an integrated examination of how the senses work together. Goldstein shows…

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List price: $111.95
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 8/6/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 704
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.06" long
Weight: 3.322
Language: English

BRUCE GOLDSTEIN is Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona. He has received the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Pittsburgh for his classroom teaching and textbook writing. He received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Tufts University and his PhD in experimental psychology from Brown University; he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Biology Department at Harvard University before joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. Bruce has published papers on a wide variety of topics, including retinal and cortical physiology, visual…

Introduction to Perception	p. 1
The Importance of Perception	p. 2
The Perceptual Process	p. 4
Studying the Perceptual Process	p. 8
The Psychophysical Approach: Linking Stimulation and Perception	p. 11
Summary Table 1.1	p. 12
The Physiological Approach: Linking Stimulation and Neural Firing	p. 18
The Approach in This Book	p. 28
Summary Table 1.2	p. 30
Study Questions	p. 31
Receptors and Neural Processing	p. 35
The Stimulus for Vision and the Structure of the Visual System	p. 37
The First Transformations: Light, Receptors, and Electricity	p. 40
Visual Pigments and Perception	p. 48
Neural Processing by Convergence	p. 54
Summary Table 2.1	p. 55
Neural Processing by Excitation and Inhibition	p. 58
Neural Processing and Perception	p. 64
Brain Scan: Going Beyond the Information on the Retina	p. 71
Across the Senses: The Indirectness of Perception	p. 72
Summary Table 2.2	p. 73
Study Questions	p. 74
The Lateral Geniculate Nucleus and Striate Cortex	p. 77
Information Flow and Organization in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus	p. 78
Information Processing in the Striate Cortex (V1)	p. 81
Brain Scan: The Oblique Effect in the Striate Cortex	p. 89
Summary Table 3.1	p. 94
Organization of the Striate Cortex	p. 95
The Plasticity of Perception: Selective Rearing for Orientation	p. 100
Across the Senses: Maps and Columns	p. 103
Summary Table 3.2	p. 104
Study Questions	p. 105
Higher-Level Visual Processing	p. 109
Higher-Level Processing in the Striate Cortex (V1)	p. 110
Processing Streams in the Extrastriate Cortex	p. 112
Modularity in the Extrastriate Cortex	p. 117
Brain Scan: The Human Face Area	p. 123
Summary Table 4.1	p. 124
The Sensory Code: How Objects Are Represented in the Visual System	p. 123
How Do Neurons Become Specialized?	p. 127
Connecting Physiology and Perception	p. 129
Visual Attention: Visual and Neural Selectivity	p. 130
The Binding Problem: Combining Information from Different Areas	p. 134
The Plasticity of Perception: Improved Neural Response Leads to Improved Perception	p. 137
Across the Senses: Neurons That Respond to Vision and Touch	p. 138
Summary Table 4.2	p. 140
Study Questions	p. 141
Perceiving Objects	p. 145
The Gestalt Approach to Perceptual Organization: How Elements Are Grouped	p. 146
Perceptual Segregation: How Objects Are Separated	p. 156
Summary Table 5.1	p. 161
How Objects Are Constructed	p. 160
Brain Scan: Representation of Global Three-Dimensional Structure	p. 170
The Intelligence of Object Perception	p. 172
The Plasticity of Perception: The Co-Occurrence Effect	p. 178
Across the Senses: Object Perception Across the Senses	p. 179
Summary Table 5.2	p. 181
Study Questions	p. 182
Perceiving Color	p. 185
Four Questions About Color	p. 186
The Trichromatic Theory of Color Vision	p. 190
Opponent-Process Theory of Color Vision	p. 195
What We Still Don't Know About the Code for Color	p. 200
Brain Scan: Distributed Nature of Color Representation in the Human Cortex	p. 201
Summary Table 6.1	p. 201
Color Deficiency	p. 200
Creating Color Experience	p. 204
Color Constancy	p. 206
Lightness Constancy	p. 209
The Plasticity of Perception: Color Vision as an Adaptation to the Environment	p. 216
Across the Senses: How Color Affects Taste and Smell	p. 218
Summary Table 6.2	p. 219
Study Questions	p. 220
Perceiving Depth and Size	p. 225
Oculomotor Cues	p. 226
Monocular Cues	p. 227
Binocular Depth Cues	p. 233
Brain Scan: Stereopsis in the Brain	p. 242
Depth Information Across Species	p. 244
Summary Table 7.1	p. 247
Perceiving Size	p. 248
Visual Illusions	p. 254
The Plasticity of Perception: Sensitive Periods in the Development of Binocular Vision	p. 261
Across the Senses: Visual and Auditory Space	p. 264
Summary Table 7.2	p. 265
Study Questions	p. 266
Perceiving Movement	p. 269
Four Ways to Create Perception of Movement	p. 272
Neural Feature Detectors and Movement Perception	p. 276
Corollary Discharge Theory: Taking Eye Movements into Account	p. 279
Information for Movement in the Optic Array	p. 283
Summary Table 8.1	p. 284
Perceptual Organization and Movement Perception	p. 285
The Intelligence of Movement Perception	p. 290
Brain Scan: Brain Activity During Apparent Movement by the Human Body	p. 294
The Plasticity of Perception: Selective Rearing and Movement Perception	p. 294
Across the Senses: Movement Perception Across the Senses	p. 295
Summary Table 8.2	p. 297
Study Questions	p. 298
Perception and Action	p. 301
Perception and the Moving Observer	p. 302
Visual Control of Action	p. 307
Summary Table 9.1	p. 316
Grasping Objects: Where Perception Meets the Motor System	p. 320
Brain Scan: The Magnetoencephalogram (MEG): A Way to Measure Rapid Activity in Humans	p. 324
Across the Senses: Action, Hearing, and Vision	p. 325
Summary Table 9.2	p. 326
Study Questions	p. 327
Sound, the Auditory System, and Pitch Perception	p. 331
The Functions of Hearing	p. 332
The Sound Stimulus: Pressure Changes in the Air	p. 334
Sound as a Perceptual Response: The Experience of Hearing	p. 339
Summary Table 10.1	p. 343
Auditory System: Structure and Function	p. 343
Frequency Analysis in the Cochlea and Auditory Nerve	p. 351
Summary Table 10.2	p. 361
Frequency Analysis in the Cortex	p. 361
The Plasticity of Perception: Stimulation Changes in the Auditory Cortex	p. 366
Brain Scan: Musicians Have Larger Auditory Areas	p. 368
Across the Senses: Cross-Modality Experience: Bright Tones and Colored Words	p. 368
Summary Table 10.3	p. 370
Study Questions	p. 371
Auditory Localization, Sound Quality, and the Auditory Scene	p. 375
Auditory Localization: Locating Single Sounds in Space	p. 376
Brain Scan: A Motion Area in the Auditory Cortex	p. 386
Summary Table 11.1	p. 390
Sound Quality: What a Stimulus Sounds Like	p. 391
Auditory Scene Analysis: Identifying Sound Sources	p. 395
Across the Senses and Plasticity: How Vision Can Affect Hearing	p. 402
Summary Table 11.2	p. 405
Study Questions	p. 406
Speech Perception	p. 409
The Speech Stimulus	p. 410
Problems Posed by the Speech Stimulus	p. 413
Stimulus Dimensions of Speech Perception	p. 416
Brain Scan: Activation of Auditory Cortex During Silent Lipreading	p. 420
Summary Table 12.1	p. 421
Cognitive Dimensions of Speech Perception	p. 421
The Physiology of Speech Perception	p. 425
Is Speech "Special"?	p. 427
The Plasticity of Perception: Differences Between American and Japanese Listeners	p. 429
Across the Senses: Tadoma: "Hearing" with Touch	p. 430
Summary Table 12.2	p. 431
Study Questions	p. 432
The Cutaneous Senses	p. 435
The Skin and Its Receptors	p. 437
Neural Processing for Touch	p. 444
Summary Table 13.1	p. 451
Tactile Object Recognition	p. 451
The Plasticity of Perception: Plasticity in the Cutaneous System	p. 456
Summary Table 13.2	p. 460
Pain Perception: Neural Firing and Cognitive Influences	p. 460
Brain Scan: Where Is the Unpleasantness of Pain Signaled in the Brain?	p. 462
Across the Senses: Parallels Between Touch and Vision	p. 467
Summary Table 13.3	p. 468
Study Questions	p. 469
The Chemical Senses	p. 473
Olfaction: Uses and Facts	p. 475
The Olfactory System	p. 478
The Neural Code for Odor Molecules	p. 482
Brain Scan: Sniff Responses in the Human Brain	p. 486
Summary Table 14.1	p. 487
The Taste System	p. 487
Taste Quality	p. 490
The Neural Code for Taste Quality	p. 491
The Perception of Flavor	p. 495
The Plasticity of Perception: Learning Smell-Taste Associations	p. 502
Across the Senses: Seeing a Smell: A Colorometric Electronic Nose	p. 503
Summary Table 14.2	p. 505
Study Questions	p. 506
Perceptual Development	p. 509
Measuring Infant Perception	p. 510
Infant Perceptual Capacities: Vision	p. 513
Summary Table 15.1	p. 528
Infant Perceptual Capacities: Hearing and the Chemical Senses	p. 528
The Plasticity of Perception: The Development of Myopia	p. 538
Across the Senses: Intermodal Perception in Infants	p. 540
Summary Table 15.2	p. 542
Study Questions	p. 543
Clinical Aspects of Vision and Hearing	p. 545
Visual Impairment	p. 546
How Can Vision Become Impaired?	p. 546
Focusing Problems	p. 547
Decreased Transmission of Light	p. 551
Damage to the Retina	p. 554
Optic Nerve Damage: Glaucoma	p. 557
The Eye Examination	p. 558
Summary Table 16.1	p. 565
Hearing Impairment	p. 564
How Can Hearing Become Impaired?	p. 564
Conductive Hearing Loss	p. 566
Sensorineural Hearing Loss	p. 567
The Ear Examination and Hearing Evaluation	p. 569
Managing Hearing Loss	p. 572
The Plasticity of Perception: Decrease in Cortical Function Due to Aging	p. 577
Across the Senses: Deafness and Visual Attention	p. 578
Summary Table 16.2	p. 579
Study Questions	p. 580
Signal Detection: Procedure and Theory	p. 583
Is There an Absolute Threshold?	p. 583
A Signal Detection Experiment	p. 584
Signal Detection Theory	p. 587
Determining Spatial Frequencies Using Fourier Analysis	p. 591
Glossary	p. 595
References	p. 621
Author Index	p. 655
Subject Index	p. 663
Credits	p. 679
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