Sensation and Perception: An Integrated Approach - Softcover

SCHIFFMAN, HR

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471760919 ISBN 13: 9780471760917

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1976

Synopsis

A thorough revision of the field's most comprehensive and respected text, this book provides unusually lucid coverage of all senses plus unique treatments of the perception of music and time. This third edition: includes the latest research; includes some historical perspectives; has updated information on psychophysics; includes expanded treatment of colour vision defects, spatial frequency analysis, motion pictures, visual illusions, pain and subjected-psychological factors in pain perception, motion sickness, and auditory localization and speech perception; includes a section on the motion of the receptor field on skin, lemniscal and spinothalmic tracts; has a new chapter on taste preferences; and has numerous pedagogical features to help make the material more accessible to the student.

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Review:

an excellent textbook for every staff library, across the education spectrum (Information Exchange, July 2003)

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About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0471760919
• ISBN 13: 9780471760917
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 434