Sensation and Perception is a cutting edge and highly readable account of modern sensation and perception from both a cognitive and neurocognitive perspective. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, authors Bennett L. Schwartz and John H. Krantz offer readers the most relevant topics in the field of sensation and perception. Rich in examples and applications to everyday life, the text includes an emphasis on areas of interest to students, namely, music, clinical applications, neuropsychology, and interesting animal perception systems. Updates to the
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Table of Content
ISLE Activities
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1: What Is Perception?
Chapter 2: Research Methodology
Chapter 3: Visual System: The Eye
Chapter 4: Visual System: The Brain
Chapter 5: Object Perception
Chapter 6: Color Perception
Chapter 7: Depth and Size Perception
Chapter 8: Movement and Action
Chapter 9: Visual Attention
Chapter 10: The Auditory System
Chapter 11: The Auditory Brain and Sound Localization
Chapter 12: Speech Perception
Chapter 13: Music Perception
Chapter 14: Touch and Pain
Chapter 15: Olfaction and Taste
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index
About the author
John H. Krantz received his psychology Ph D from the University of Florida. After graduate school, heworked in industry at Honeywell on visual factors related to cockpit displays. In 1990, he returned toacademia, taking a position at Hanover College. John has done extensive research in vision, human factors, computers in psychology, and the use of the Web as a medium for psychological research. He hasbeen program chair and president of the Society for Computers in Psychology and editor of the journal Behavior Research Methods. John was the first to develop Web experiments in psychological science andled the way on techniques for sending multimedia via the Web. He has served as a faculty associate for The Psychology Place, developing interactive learning activities, and created psychology’s first globalwebsite for the Association for Psychological Science (APS). In addition, he is an author for both the Cognitive Toolkit and Psych Sim 6. John is well known for his widely used online psychological experimentsrelated to sensation, perception, and cognition. His current research is focused on using the Webfor psychological research and modeling the visual system.
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