Table Of Contents:

• Chapter 1: What is Perception?
• Introduction: Why is the Study of Sensation and Perception Important?
• Why Is This Psychology?
• The Myth of Five Senses
• The Basics of Perception
• The History of Sensation and Perception
• Applications of Sensation and Perception and Avoiding Collisions
• Chapter 2: Research Methodology
• The Measures and Methods of Psychophysics
• In Depth: Psychophysics In Assessment: Hearing Tests and Vision Tests
• Chapter 3: Visual System: The Eye
• Light
• The Eye
• Anatomy of the Retina
• The Duplex Theory of Vision
• Retinal Ganglion Cells and Receptive Fields
• Refractive Errors and Diseases of the Eye and Perception
• Chapter 4: Visual System: The Brain
• The Optic Nerve and Chiasm
• The Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN)
• The Superior Colliculus
• Primary Visual Cortex
• The Organization of V1
• V2 and Beyond
• Functional Pathways in Visual Cortex
• Where does Vision Come Together?
• Development of the Visual System
• In Depth: Blindsight
• Chapter 5: Object Perception
• What is Object Perception?
• Top-down Processing and Bottom-up Processing
• Perceptual Organization
• Recognition by Components
• The Neuroanatomy and Physiology of Object Perception
• In Depth: Vision and Animacy
• Chapter 6: Color Perception
• Wavelengths of Light and Color
• Hue, Saturation, Lightness, and Brightness
• Additive and Subtractive Color Mixing
• The Retina and Color
• The Trichromatic Theory of Color Vision
• The Opponent theory of Color Perception
• Color Deficiency
• Constancy: Lightness and Color Constancy
• Chapter 7: Depth and Size Perception
• Oculomotor Cues
• Monocular Depth Cues
• Motion Cues
• Binocular Cues to Depth
• Size Perception
• In Depth: Stereopsis and Sports
• Chapter 8: Movement and Action
• How Do We Perceive Motion?
• The Neuroscience of Vision and Motion
• Form Perception and Biological Motion
• Action
• In Depth: Motion Illusions
• Chapter 9: Visual Attention
• Selective Attention: Covert Attention
• Features of Attention
• The Anatomy and Physiology of Attention
• Developmental Aspects of Visual Attention
• In Depth: Awareness and Visual Consciousness
• Chapter 10: The Auditory System
• Sound as Stimulus
• Anatomy of the Ear
• Central Pathway and Brain Anatomy of Hearing
• Hearing Loss, Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants
• In Depth: Biosonar in Bats and Dolphins
• Chapter 11: The Auditory Brain and Sound Localization
• Central Pathway and Brain Anatomy of Hearing
• Auditory Localization
• Auditory Scene Analysis
• In Depth: Biosonar in Bats and Dolphins
• Chapter 12: Speech Perception
• The Human Voice as Stimulus
• Speech
• Phonemes
• Variability in the Acoustics of Phonemes
• The Development of Phoneme Perception
• Speech Perception and the Brain
• In Depth: Hearing Loss and Speech Perception
• Chapter 13: Music Perception
• The Acoustics of Music
• The Neuroscience of Music
• Learning, Culture, and Music Perception
• In Depth: Musical Illusions
• Chapter 14: Touch and Pain
• The Skin and Its Receptors
• Proprioception: Perceiving Limb Position
• Thermoreception
• Nociception and the Perception of Pain
• Neural Pathways
• The Neurochemistry of Pain: Endogenous Opioids
• The Perception of Itch
• Haptic Perception
• Vestibular System
• Application: Braille Reading in the Blind
• In Depth: Electroreception in Fish
• Chapter 15: Olfaction and Taste
• The Olfactory System
• Olfactory Perception
• Taste
• In Depth: Acquired Tastes