Sensation and Perception

Bennett L. Schwartz - Florida International University, USA
John H. Krantz - Hanover College
Sensation and Perception
January 2015 | 480 pages | Sage US
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Description

Sensation and Perception is a cutting-edge, easy-to-understand account of the modern sensation and perception field presented from both a cognitive and neurocognitive perspective. The book’s rich examples and applications to everyday life emphasize such high-interest topics as music, clinical applications, neuropsychology, and animal perception systems. Clear, illustrative diagrams and figures along with an extensive collection of online activities allow readers to interact with the phenomena covered in the text, perform experiments, and gain a deeper understanding of key course concepts. 

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

Resources

Instructor Teaching Site

The following chapter-specific assets are available on the teaching site:

  •  Author-created test banks provide a diverse range of questions as well as the opportunity to edit any question and/or insert personalized questions to effectively assess students’ progress and understanding
  • Lecture notes summarize key concepts by chapter to assist in the preparation of lectures and class discussions
  • Sample course syllabi for semester and quarter courses provide suggested models for structuring a course
  • Editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint slides offer complete flexibility for creating a multimedia presentation for the course
  • Lively and stimulating ideas for class assignments that can be used in class to reinforce active learning. The creative assignments apply to individual or group projects
  • Chapter-specific discussion questions help launch classroom interaction by prompting students to engage with the material and by reinforcing important content
  • Multimedia content includes audio and video resources that appeal to students with different learning styles
http://edge.sagepub.com/schwartz

Student Study Site

The open-access study site includes:

  •  Interactive Sensation Laboratory Exercises (ISLE) provide opportunities to view and hear many of the phenomena discussed in the book including anatomical diagrams, visual illusions, auditory illusions, and musical selections
  • A customized online action plan includes tips and feedback on progress through the course and materials, allowing students to individualize their learning experience
  • Learning objectives reinforce the most important material 
  •  Mobile-friendly eFlashcards strengthen understanding of key terms and concepts
  •  Multimedia content includes audio and video resources that appeal to students with different learning styles
  • EXCLUSIVE! Access to full-text SAGE journal articles that have been carefully selected to support and expand on the concepts presented in each chapter
http://edge.sagepub.com/schwartz

Additional materials

Description

Sensation and Perception is a cutting-edge, easy-to-understand account of the modern sensation and perception field presented from both a cognitive and neurocognitive perspective. The book’s rich examples and applications to everyday life emphasize such high-interest topics as music, clinical applications, neuropsychology, and animal perception systems. Clear, illustrative diagrams and figures along with an extensive collection of online activities allow readers to interact with the phenomena covered in the text, perform experiments, and gain a deeper understanding of key course concepts. 

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

Resources

Instructor Teaching Site

The following chapter-specific assets are available on the teaching site:

  •  Author-created test banks provide a diverse range of questions as well as the opportunity to edit any question and/or insert personalized questions to effectively assess students’ progress and understanding
  • Lecture notes summarize key concepts by chapter to assist in the preparation of lectures and class discussions
  • Sample course syllabi for semester and quarter courses provide suggested models for structuring a course
  • Editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint slides offer complete flexibility for creating a multimedia presentation for the course
  • Lively and stimulating ideas for class assignments that can be used in class to reinforce active learning. The creative assignments apply to individual or group projects
  • Chapter-specific discussion questions help launch classroom interaction by prompting students to engage with the material and by reinforcing important content
  • Multimedia content includes audio and video resources that appeal to students with different learning styles
http://edge.sagepub.com/schwartz

Student Study Site

The open-access study site includes:

  •  Interactive Sensation Laboratory Exercises (ISLE) provide opportunities to view and hear many of the phenomena discussed in the book including anatomical diagrams, visual illusions, auditory illusions, and musical selections
  • A customized online action plan includes tips and feedback on progress through the course and materials, allowing students to individualize their learning experience
  • Learning objectives reinforce the most important material 
  •  Mobile-friendly eFlashcards strengthen understanding of key terms and concepts
  •  Multimedia content includes audio and video resources that appeal to students with different learning styles
  • EXCLUSIVE! Access to full-text SAGE journal articles that have been carefully selected to support and expand on the concepts presented in each chapter
http://edge.sagepub.com/schwartz

Additional materials

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Sensation and Perception

Bennett L. Schwartz , John H. Krantz
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January 2015 | 480 pages | Sage US

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Sensation and Perception is a cutting-edge, easy-to-understand account of the modern sensation and perception field presented from both a cognitive and neurocognitive perspective. The book’s rich examples and applications to everyday life emphasize such high-interest topics as music, clinical applications, neuropsychology, and animal perception systems. Clear, illustrative diagrams and figures along with an extensive collection of online activities allow readers to interact with the phenomena covered in the text, perform experiments, and gain a deeper understanding of key course concepts. 


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

Recent Product Reviews:

This is an excellent book, allowing students the opportunity to explore topics on sensation and perception at a deeper level. There is a lot of real-world application, making it relevant and interesting to read.
Dr Simone Coetzee, Department of Health & Human Sciences, Essex University

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