SENSATION & PERCEPTION. 5TH EDITION

Chapter 1. Introduction
Welcome to Our World
Thresholds and the Dawn of Psychophysics
Sensory Neuroscience and the Biology of Perception
Development over the Life Span

Chapter 2. The First Steps in Vision: From Light to Neural Signals
A Little Light Physics
Eyes That Capture Light
Dark and Light Adaptation
Retinal Information Processing

Chapter 3. Spatial Vision: From Spots to Stripes
Visual Acuity: Oh Say, Can You See?
Retinal Ganglion Cells and Stripes
The Lateral Geniculate Nucleus
The Striate Cortex
Receptive Fields in Striate Cortex
Columns and Hypercolumns
Selective Adaptation: The Psychologist's Electrode
The Development of Vision
Chapter 4. Perceiving and Recognizing Objects
From Simple Lines and Edges to Properties of Objects
What and Where Pathways
The Problems of Perceiving and Recognizing Objects
Mid-level Vision
Object Recognition

Chapter 5. The Perception of Color
Basic Principles of Color Perception
Step 1: Color Detection
Step 2: Color Discrimination
Step 3: Color Appearance
Individual Differences in Color Perception
From the Color of Lights to a World of Color
What Is Color Vision Good For?

Chapter 6. Space Perception and Binocular Vision
Monocular Cues to Three-Dimensional Space
Triangulation Cues to Three-Dimensional Space
Binocular Vision and Stereopsis
Combining Depth Cues
Development of Binocular Vision and Stereopsis

Chapter 7. Attention and Scene Perception
Selection in Space
Visual Search
Attending in Time: RSVP and the Attentional Blink
The Physiological Basis of Attention
Disorders of Visual Attention
Perceiving and Understanding Scenes

Chapter 8. Visual Motion Perception
Computation of Visual Motion
Using Motion Information
Eye Movements
Development of Motion Perception

Chapter 9. Hearing: Physiology and Psychoacoustics
The Function of Hearing
What Is Sound?
Basic Structure of the Mammalian Auditory System
Basic Operating Characteristics of the Auditory System
Hearing Loss

Chapter 10. Hearing in the Environment
Sound Localization
Complex Sounds
Auditory Scene Analysis
Continuity and Restoration Effects
Auditory Attention

Chapter 11. Music and Speech Perception
Music
Speech

Chapter 12. Vestibular Sensation
Vestibular Contributions
Evolutionary Development and Vestibular Sensation
Modalities and Qualities of Spatial Orientation
The Vestibular Periphery
Spatial Orientation Perception
Sensory Integration
Active Sensing
Reflexive Vestibular Responses
Spatial Orientation Cortex
When the Vestibular System Goes Bad

Chapter 13. Touch
Touch Physiology
Tactile Sensitivity and Acuity
Haptic Perception

Chapter 14. Olfaction
Olfactory Physiology
Neurophysiology of Olfaction
From Chemicals to Smells
Olfactory Psychophysics, Identification, and Adaptation
Olfactory Hedonics
Associative Learning and Emotion: Neuroanatomical and Evolutionary Considerations

Chapter 15. Taste
Taste versus Flavor
Anatomy and Physiology of the Gustatory System
The Four Basic Tastes?
Are There More Than Four Basic Tastes? Does It Matter?
Genetic Variation in Bitter
How Do Taste and Flavor Contribute to the Regulation of Nutrients?
The Nature of Taste Qualities

Glossary
References
Photo Credits
Index

Sensation & Perception, Fifth Edition introduces students to their own senses, emphasizing human sensory and perceptual experience and the basic neuroscientific underpinnings of that experience. The authors, specialists in their respective domains, strive to spread their enthusiasm for fundamental questions about the human senses and the impact that answers to those questions can have on medical and societal issues.

Features
• Current research findings are integrated as the basics are presented
• The book provides coverage that others don't: full chapters on Taste, Smell, Touch, and the Vestibular System
• An energetic, fun, and accessible writing style is complemented by unbeatable full-color figures and graphics
• "Sensation & Perception in Everyday Life" boxes discuss perceptual impairments or real-world applications related to the chapter topic
• Bold-faced key terms are defined in a Marginal Glossary
• In-text links reference the Companion Website, full of demos, simulations, and activities for students

New to this Edition
• "Scientists at Work" boxes look at important discoveries and explain the process of experimentation and hypothesis testing.
• Appearing at the beginning of each chapter, "Questions to Contemplate" set the stage for what students should be able to answer after reading the chapter.

Authors
• Jeremy M. Wolfe is Professor of Ophthalmology & Radiology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wolfe was trained as a vision researcher/experimental psychologist and remains one today. His early work includes papers on binocular vision, adaptation, and accommodation. The bulk of his recent work has dealt with visual search and visual attention in the lab and in real world settings such as airport security and cancer screening. He taught Introductory Psychology for over twenty-five years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he won the Baker Memorial Prize for undergraduate teaching in 1989. He directs the Visual Attention Lab and the Center for Advanced Medical Imaging of Brigham & Women's Hospital.
• Keith R. Kluender is Professor and Head of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. His research encompasses: how people hear complex sounds such as speech; how experience shapes the way we hear; how what we hear guides our actions and communication; clinical problems of hearing impairment or language delay; and practical concerns about computer speech recognition and hearing aid design. Dr. Kluender is deeply committed to teaching, and has taught a wide array of courses--philosophical, psychological, and physiological.
• Dennis M. Levi has taught at the University of California, Berkeley since 2001. He is Professor in the School of Optometry and Professor at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. In the lab, Dr. Levi and colleagues use psychophysics, computational modeling, and brain imaging (fMRI) to study the neural mechanisms of normal pattern vision in humans, and to learn how they are degraded by abnormal visual experience (amblyopia).
• Linda M. Bartoshuk is Bushnell Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Florida. Her research on taste has opened up broad new avenues for further study, establishing the impact of both genetic and pathological variation in taste on food preferences, diet, and health. She discovered that taste normally inhibits other oral sensations such that damage to taste leads to unexpected consequences like weight gain and intensified oral pain. Most recently, working with colleagues in Horticulture, her group found that a considerable amount of the sweetness in fruit is actually produced by interactions between taste and olfaction in the brain. This may lead to a new way to reduce sugar in foods and beverages.
• Rachel S. Herz is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University and Part-time Faculty in the Psychology Department at Boston College. Her research focuses on a number of facets of olfactory cognition and perception and on emotion, memory, and motivated behavior. Her current research also focuses on the sensory and psychological mechanisms underlying food perception and eating behavior. Using an experimental approach grounded in evolutionary theory and incorporating both cognitive behavioral and neuropsychological techniques, Dr. Herz's overarching aim is to understand how biological mechanisms and cognitive processes interact to influence human perception and behavior.
• Roberta L. Klatzky is the Charles J. Queenan Jr. Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, where she also holds faculty appointments in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. She has done extensive research on haptic and visual object recognition, space perception and spatial thinking, and motor performance. Her work has application to haptic interfaces, navigation aids for the blind, image-guided surgery, teleoperation, and virtual environments.
• Daniel M. Merfeld is Professor of Otolaryngology at the Ohio State University College of Medicine and the Senior Vestibular Scientist at the Naval Medical Research Unit in Dayton. Much of his research career has been spent studying how the brain combines information from multiple sources, with a specific focus on how the brain processes ambiguous sensory information from the vestibular system in the presence of noise. Translational work includes research developing new methods to help diagnose patients experiencing vestibular symptoms and research developing vestibular implants for patients who have severe problems with their vestibular labyrinth.