Sensation and Perception, 11th Edition

Cover
Dedication
About the Authors
Brief Contents
Contents
Methods
Demonstrations
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Perception
	1.1: Why Read This Book?
	1.2: Why Is This Book Titled
	1.3: The Perceptual Process
	1.4: Studying the Perceptual Process
	1.5: Measuring Perception
	Something to Consider: Why Is the Difference Between Physical and Perceptual Important?
Chapter 2: Basic Principles of Sensory Physiology
	2.1: Electrical Signals in Neurons
	2.2: Sensory Coding: How Neurons Represent Information
	2.3: Zooming Out: Representation in the Brain
	Something to Consider: The Mind-Body Problem
Chapter 3: The Eye and Retina
	3.1: Light, the Eye, and the Visual Receptors
	3.2: Focusing Light Onto the Retina
	3.3: Photoreceptor Processes
	3.4: What Happens as Signals Travel Through the Retina
	Something to Consider: Early Events Are Powerful
Chapter 4: The Visual Cortex and Beyond
	4.1: From Retina to Visual Cortex
	4.2: The Role of Feature Detectors in Perception
	4.3: Spatial Organization in the Visual Cortex
	4.4: Beyond the Visual Cortex
	4.5: Higher-Level Neurons
	Something to Consider: “Flexible” Receptive Fields
Chapter 5: Perceiving Objects and Scenes
	5.1: Why Is It So Difficult to Design a Perceiving Machine?
	5.2: Perceptual Organization
	5.3: Recognition by Components
	5.4: Perceiving Scenes and Objects in Scenes
	5.5: Connecting Neural Activity and Object/Scene Perception
	Something to Consider: The Puzzle of Faces
Chapter 6: Visual Attention
	6.1: What Is Attention?
	6.2: The Diversity of Attention Research
	6.3: What Happens When We Scan a Scene by Moving Our Eyes?
	6.4: Things That Influence Visual Scanning
	6.5: The Benefits of Attention
	6.6: The Physiology of Attention
	6.7: What Happens When We Don’t Attend?
	6.8: Distraction by Smartphones
	6.9: Disorders of Attention: Spatial Neglect and Extinction
	Something to Consider: Focusing Attention by Meditating
Chapter 7: Taking Action
	7.1: The Ecological Approach to Perception
	7.2: Staying on Course: Walking and Driving
	7.3: Finding Your Way Through the Environment
	7.4: Interacting With Objects: Reaching, Grasping, and Lifting
	7.5: Observing Other People’s Actions
	7.6: Action-Based Accounts of Perception
	Something to Consider: Prediction is Everywhere
Chapter 8: Perceiving Motion
	8.1: Functions of Motion Perception
	8.2: Studying Motion Perception
	8.3: The Ecological Approach to Motion Perception
	8.4: The Corollary Discharge and Motion Perception
	8.5: The Reichardt Detector
	8.6: Single-Neuron Responses to Motion
	8.7: Beyond Single-Neuron Responses to Motion
	8.8: Motion and the Human Body
	8.9: Motion Responses to Still Pictures
	Something to Consider: Motion, Motion, and More Motion
Chapter 9: Perceiving Color
	9.1: Functions of Color Perception
	9.2: Color and Light
	9.3: Perceptual Dimensions of Color
	9.4: The Trichromacy of Color Vision
	9.5: The Opponency of Color Vision
	9.6: Color Areas in the Cortex
	9.7: Color in the World: Beyond Wavelength
	Something to Consider: We Perceive Color From Colorless Wavelengths
Chapter 10: Perceiving Depth and Size
	10.1: Perceiving Depth
	10.2: Oculomotor Cues
	10.3: Monocular Cues
	10.4: Binocular Depth Information
	10.5: The Physiology of Binocular Depth Perception
	10.6: Depth Information Across Species
	10.7: Perceiving Size
	10.8: Illusions of Depth and Size
	Something to Consider: The Changing Moon
Chapter 11: Hearing
	11.1: Physical Aspects of Sound
	11.2: Perceptual Aspects of Sound
	11.3: From Pressure Changes to Electrical Signals
	11.4: How Frequency Is Represented in the Auditory Nerve
	11.5: The Physiology of Pitch Perception: The Cochlea
	11.6: The Physiology of Pitch Perception: The Brain
	11.7: Hearing Loss
	Something to Consider: Explaining Sound to an 11-Year Old
Chapter 12: Hearing in the Environment
	12.1: Sound Source Localization
	12.2: The Physiology of Auditory Localization
	12.3: Hearing Inside Rooms
	12.4: Auditory Scene Analysis
	Something to Consider: Interactions Between Hearing and Vision
Chapter 13: Perceiving Music
	13.1: What Is Music?
	13.2: Does Music Have an Adaptive Function?
	13.3: Outcomes of Music
	13.4: Musical Timing
	13.5: Hearing Melodies
	13.6: Creating Emotions
	Something to Consider: Comparing Music and Language Mechanisms in the Brain
	13.7: Coda: Music Is “Special”
Chapter 14: Perceiving Speech
	14.1: The Speech Stimulus
	14.2: Variability of the Acoustic Signal
	14.3: Some History: The Motor Theory of Speech Perception
	14.4: Information for Speech Perception
	14.5: Speech Perception in Difficult Circumstances
	14.6: Speech Perception and the Brain
	Something to Consider: Cochlear Implants
Chapter 15: The Cutaneous Senses
	15.1: Overview of the Cutaneous System
	15.2: Perceiving Details
	15.3: Perceiving Vibration and Texture
	15.4: Perceiving Objects
	15.5: Social Touch
	15.6: The Gate Control Model of Pain
	15.7: Top-Down Processes
	15.8: The Brain and Pain
	15.9: Social Aspects of Pain
	Something to Consider: Plasticity and the Brain
Chapter 16: The Chemical Senses
	16.1: Some Properties of the Chemical Senses
	16.2: Taste Quality
	16.3: The Neural Code for Taste Quality
	16.4: Individual Differences in Taste
	16.5: The Importance of Olfaction
	16.6: Olfactory Abilities
	16.7: Analyzing Odorants: The Mucosa and Olfactory Bulb
	16.8: Representing Odors in the Cortex
	16.9: The Perception of Flavor
	Something to Consider: The Community of the Senses
Appendix A: The Difference Threshold
Appendix B: Magnitude Estimation and the Power Function
Appendix C: The Signal Detection Approach
Glossary
References
Name Index
Subject Index