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

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Author:   E. Bruce Goldstein ,  Glyn W. Humphreys ,  Margaret Shiffrar ,  William Yost
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Blackwell Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 17.90cm , Height: 6.40cm , Length: 25.10cm
Weight:   1.560kg
ISBN:  

9780631206835

ISBN 10:   0631206833
Pages:   800
Publication Date:   17 January 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface. List of Contributors. 1. Cross-Talk Between Psychophysics and Physiology in the Study of Perception: E Bruce Goldstein (University of Pittsburgh). 2. Principles of Neural Processing: Michael W. Levine (University of Illinois). 3. Basic Visual Processes: Laura J. Frishman (University of Houston). 4. Color Vision: James Gordon (Hunter College) and Israel Abramov (Brooklyn College of CUNY). 5. Visual Space Perception: Hal A. Sedgwick (SUNY College of Optometry). 6. Object Perception: Mary A. Peterson (University of Arizona). 7. The Neuropsychology of Visual Object and Space Perception: Glyn W. Humphreys (University of Birmingham) and M. Jane Riddoch (University of Birmingham). 8. Movement and Event Perception: Maggie Shiffrar (Rutgers University). 9. Visual Attention: Marvin M. Chun (Vanderbilt Vision Research Center) and Jeremy M. Wolfe (Center for Opthalmic Research). 10. Separate Visual Systems for Action and Perception: Melvyn A. Goodale (University of Western Ontario) and G. Keith Humphrey (University of Western Ontario). 11. Pictorial Perception and Art: E. Bruce Goldstein (University of Pittsburgh). 12. Basic Auditory Processes: Brian C. J. Moore (University of Cambridge). 13. Loudness, Pitch and Timbre: Brian C. J. Moore (University of Cambridge). 14. Auditory Localization and Scene Perception: William A. Yost (Loyola University). 15. Perception of Music: W. Jay Dowling (University of Texas at Dallas). 16. Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition: Research and Theory: Miranda Cleary (Indiana University) and David B. Pisoni (Indiana University). 17. Cutaneous Perception: Janet M. Weisenberger (Ohio State University). 18. Olfaction: Beverly J. Cowart (Monell Chemical Senses Center) and Nancy E. Rawson (Monell Chemical Senses Center). 19. Taste: Harry T. Lawless (Cornell University). 20. Perceptual Development: Vision: Janet Gwiazda (The New England College of Optometry) and Eileen E. Birch (Retina Foundation of the Southwest). 21. Development of the Auditory, Gustatory, Olfactory, and Somatosensory Systems: Lynne A. Werner (Dept. of Speech and Hearing Science) and Ilene L. Bernstein (University of Washington). 22. Brain Mechanisms for Synthesizing Information from Different Sensory Modalities: Barry E. Stein (Bowman Grey School of Medicine) and Mark T. Wallace (Bowman Grey School of Medicine) and Terrence R. Stanford (Bowman Grey School of Medicine). 23. Modularity in Perception, its Relation to Cognition and Knowledge: Ken Nakayama (Harvard University).

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E. Bruce Goldstein is Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of Undergraduate Programs in Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published numerous papers in visual physiology and visual perception and is the author of Psychology (1994) and Sensation and Perception, 5th edition (1999).

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