Sensation, perception and action : an evolutionary perspective
Our senses enable us to interact with the world around us, taking in a mass of information as we do so. This textbook covers all the different senses by taking a 'designer's view' that describes sensory processes through evolutionary adaptations, and discusses how behaviour is affecte...
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Basingstoke, U. K. :
Palgrave Macmillan ,
c2010
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Perception as gateway to the world
- 2. The machinery: understanding the neural code
- 3. Vision 1: brightness
- 4. Vision 2: colour
- 5. Vision 3: from images to space
- 6. Vision 4: time and motion
- 7. Hearing 1: sound and noise
- 8. Hearing 2: complex auditory information
- 9. Chemical senses: smell and taste
- 10. Body senses: from the control of posture to touch
- 11. Focus of interest: attentional modulation of perception
- 12. Managing information flow through integration of sensory and motor systems
- 13. Making sense: theoretical approaches to perception