The new edition of this successful textbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the sensory systems from vision, through audition to touch, taste and smell. In each case the neural machinery relating sensation and perception is described and integrated with the physiological underpinning. An accompanying CD-ROM brings the perceptual phenomena to life to interest the student and help their understanding.
1. Introduction; 2. Psychophysics; 3. Light and the Eye; 4. The Retina; 5. Retinal Ganglion Cells and Lateral Antagonism; 6. Light Adaptation and Dark Adaptation; 7. The Primary Visual Areas of the Brain; 8. Architecture of Vision in the Cortex; 9. Spatial Frequency Representation; 10. Form Perception; 11. Depth Perception; 12. Perceptual Constancies and Illusions; 13. The Perception of Movement; 14. Colour Vision; 15. The Structure of the Auditory System; 16. Frequency coding in the Auditory System; 17. Preception of Loudness and Space; 18. Speech Perception; 19. Somatosensory Sensation and Pain; 20. The Chemical Senses: Taste and Smell; 21. Appendices; 22. References; 23. Glossary and index
Michael W. Levine
