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Sensing and Perceiving offers a comprehensive and highly accessible overview addressing two centuries-old questions: how are animals aware of the surrounding world, and how does this awareness enable everyday behaviors? Authors Julia J. C. Blau and Jeffrey B. Wagman provide a thorough description of the biological systems involved in these processes and examine both traditional and ecological approaches to understanding how these processes occur.
The book features a conversational and humorous writing style with everyday examples that introduce novice readers to sensing and perceiving processes. Key benefits include clear explanations of different theoretical assumptions, research questions asked, and conclusions drawn by the various approaches. The authors demonstrate how sensing and perceiving are actions we perform rather than passive experiences that happen to us, reflected in the book's unique title.
Sensing and Perceiving, serves as an essential guide for students and professionals in sensation and perception, cognition, and biological psychology. This comprehensive textbook provides crucial foundational knowledge for undergraduate and postgraduate students exploring perceptual sciences, while offering valuable insights for researchers and practitioners in psychology, neuroscience, and related fields seeking to understand the active nature of sensory and perceptual processes.
Contents
Preface. Acknowledgement. Part One. Biological Systems. Chapter 1. Philosophy, History, and Introduction to the Biological Approach. Chapter 2. Light and the Eye. Chapter 3. From the Retina to the Brain. Chapter 4. Color. Chapter 5. The Ear: Auditory and Vestibular Systems. Chapter 6. Somatosensory Systems. Chapter 7. Chemical Senses: Gustation and Olfaction. Part Two. The Traditional Approach. Chapter 8. Limitations of the Biological Approach and Introduction to the Traditional Approach. Chapter 9. Visual Perception of Depth and Size. Chapter 10. Visual Perception and Recognition of Objects. Chapter 11. Visual Perception of Motion. Chapter 12. Auditory Perception. Part Three. The Ecological Approach. Chapter 13. Limitations of the Traditional Approach and Introduction to the Ecological Approach. Chapter 14. Perceiving Events and Affordances. Chapter 15. Ecological Optics and Seeing. Chapter 16. Seeing Where to Go and How to Get There. Chapter 17. Ecological Acoustics and Hearing. Chapter 18. Ecological Haptics and Touching. Chapter 19. But what about...? References.
