Sensation and Perception, Seventh Edition, introduces students to the fascinating world of human senses and helps them answer such interesting questions as "Why do some substances taste sweet" or "Why does music sound musical?" 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 have on medical and societal issues.

Offering a comprehensive and balanced blend of neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Sensation and Perception studies the interaction and multisensory nature of sensory experiences of the senses. Using clear writing and engaging and relevant features that apply scientific knowledge to everyday life and walk students through the scientific process and experimental design, this unique text  is accessible to students from various majors.

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New to this Edition

• Highlights interoception throughout the new edition
• Offers new material on "Social Touch," tickle, and itch in the "Touch" chapter
• Includes a revised discussion of "The Dress That Ate the Internet" in the "Color" chapter
• Integrates a section on the role of smell in virtual reality in the "Olfaction" chapter
• Presents new research on COVID-19's effects on olfaction and taste
• Offers a new section on mathematical and computational modeling in perception
• Includes recent findings on the "visual word form area" in the brain
• Integrates enhanced coverage of the functions of the outer hair cells of the inner ear, along with a revised and updated section on the treatment of hearing loss
• Provides new material on how sound affects vision

Features

• Integrates the newest work on sensation and perception with classic research
• "Sensation and Perception in Everyday Life" boxes discuss the application of basic science knowledge to practical problems in the real world
• "Scientists at Work" boxes walk students through the scientific process. Based on real experiments, the boxes provide a window into the thought process behind designing experiments that yield scientific results.
• "Multisensory Integration" sections throughout the text highlight how human senses interact and create a more holistic and realistic picture of perception
• Discussion of the various ways in which olfaction is involved in daily life

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The First Steps in Vision: From Light to Neural Signals
3. Spatial Vision: From Spots to Stripes
4. Perceiving and Recognizing Objects
5. The Perception of Color
6. Space Perception and Binocular Vision
7. Attention and Scene Perception
8. Visual Motion Perception
9. Hearing: Physiology and Psychoacoustics
10. Hearing in the Environment
11. Music and Speech Perception
12. Vestibular Sensation
13. Touch
14. Olfaction
15. Taste

Jeremy M. Wolfe, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, UNITED STATES

Dennis M. Levi, Ph.D., University of California, Berkley

Lori L. Holt, Ph.D., University of Texas

Linda M. Bartoshuk, Ph.D., University of Florida

Rachel S. Herz, Ph.D., Brown University

Roberta L. Klatzky, Ph.D, Carnegie Mellon University

Daniel M. Merfeld, Ph.D, Ohio State University

Jeremy M. Wolfe is Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiology at Harvard Medical School. He directs the Visual Attention Lab and the Center for Advanced Medical Imaging of Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Lori Holt is a Professor of Psychology at University of Texas, specializing in speech perception.

Dennis M. Levi has taught at the University of California, Berkeley since 2001. He is Dean/Professor in the School of Optometry and Professor at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute.

Linda M. Bartoshuk is Bushnell Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Florida.

Rachel S. Herz is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School and part-time Faculty in the Psychology Department at Boston College.

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.

Daniel M. Merfeld is a Professor at The Ohio State University and serves as the Senior Vestibular Scientist at the Naval Medical Research Unit in Dayton.

Lecturer resources to accompany Sensation and Perception 7e:

• Instructor's Manual
• Test Bank
• Lecture PowerPoint
• Image PowerPoint

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