Perception - Softcover

Sekuler, Robert; Blake, Randolph

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ISBN 10: 0071136835 ISBN 13: 9780071136839

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions), 1993

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This work is a revision of Sekuler and Blake's text on sensation and perception. The third edition focuses on developments in perceptual research, blending anatomy, physiology and psychophysics to explain structure and function. New features include a revised and expanded methods section, increased coverage of speech perception, an expanded and refined touch chapter and more emphasis on cognitive issues. Chapter summaries, boxed demonstrations and computational examples are also included. This edition also contains a broadened and reorganized chapter on knowledge and perception around a simple new taxonomy of the four main models of interaction between knowledge and perception. The chapter on touch has been expanded to include important new research. An enhanced chapter on colour vision reflects new ideas on the genetics and evolution of colour vision. More than 250 new references and more than 200 new illustrations and drawings are also featured.

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Inclusion of thematic icons that emphasize a between chapters and perception's principle recurring ideas.
Expanded coverage of important new research technologies, including brain imaging and genetics.
The ecological approach to perception receives more comprehensive treatment, including a discussion of perception's contribution to action.
This edition contains over 400 new references to reflect new research in the field.
Material from Chapter 13 in the 3rd edition has been integrated into other chapters to help students see these "higher-order" phenomena as part of perception.
An entire chapter (Chapter 6) has been devoted to object perception and recognition.
Clinical, Developmental, and Methodological materials are interwoven to heighten student's appreciation for the importance of the field.
Emphasis on linking content in text to students' everyday lives.
As recognized leaders and teachers in the field, the authors are uniquely positioned to evaluate and communicate the most current research.

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