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Blackwell Handbook of Sensation and Perception (Blackwell Handbooks of Experimental Psychology) [Paperback]

E. Bruce Goldstein (Editor)

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January 3, 2005
This state-of-the-art handbook provides an authoritative overview of the field of perception, with special emphasis on new developments and trends.

  • Surveys the entire field of perception, including vision, hearing, taste, olfaction, and cutaneous sensibility.
  • Ideal for researchers and teachers looking for succinct, state-of-the-art overviews of areas outside their speciality, and for anyone wanting to know about current research and future trends.
  • Uses a tutorial approach that results in a balanced description of topics.
  • A 'Selected Readings' section points to general references that provide more detailed treatments of each topic; 'Additional Topics' provide references to important topics.
  • Written by noted authorities in the field.
  • Now available in full text online via xreferplus, the award-winning reference library on the web from xrefer. For more information, visit www.xreferplus.com

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"The Handbook is clearly written and will be appreciated by undergraduate students taking an advanced course in Perception as well as by first-year postgraduate students. Lecturers and professors will also find it useful to brush up their background knowledge and to update their lectures." The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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This authoritative overview of the field of perception adopts a tutorial approach to describing physiological and psychophysical research, and features chapters on somesthesis and the chemical senses, development and sense interactions.

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First Sentence:
The illusion that perception is a simple process follows from the ease with which we perceive. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hue mechanisms, sound source determination, receptive field alignment, relative horizontal disparity, flatness cues, configural factors, sound source segregation, koniocellular streams, optic array structures, multisensory neurons, spectral loci, cone spectra, preretinal optics, parasol cells, coincidence network, shape assignment, loudness adaptation, visuomotor modules, increasing sound level, pulsation threshold, minimal audible angle, azimuthal localization, auditory filter, midget ganglion cells, meridional amblyopia
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New York, Academic Press, San Diego, Additional Topics, Oxford University Press, Suggested Readings, Psychological Review, Investigative Ophthalmology, Psychological Science, Experimental Brain Research, Journal of Neurophysiology, Child Development, Journal of Comparative Neurology, Boca Raton, Raven Press, Cambridge University Press, Clinical Neurophysiology, John Wiley, Royal Society of London, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Weber's Law, Journal of General Physiology, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Annual Review of Neuroscience, Current Biology
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