Encyclopedia of Perception
About this ebook
Key Features
- Contains 16 pages of color illustration and photography to accompany the entries
- Offers a varied and broad list of topics, including basic research as well as methodologies, theoretical approaches, and real-world applications of perceptual research
- Emphasizes human perception but includes ample research because of its importance in its own right and because of what this research tells us about human perception
- Written by recognized experts from many disciplines but for an audience with no previous background in perception—students and members of the general public alike
Key Themes
- Action
- Attention
- Audition
- Chemical Senses
- Cognition and Perception
- Computers and Perception
- Consciousness
- Disorders of Perception
- Illusory Perceptions
- Individual Differences (Human) and Comparative (Across Species; Not Including Ageing, Disorders, and Perceptual Development)
- Methods
- Perceptual Development/Experience
- Philosophical Approaches
- Physiological Processes
- Sense Interaction
- Skin and Body Senses
- Theoretical Approaches
- Visual Perception
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About the author
E. Bruce Goldstein is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his bachelor′s degree in chemical engineering from Tufts University, his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Brown University, and was a post-doctoral fellow in the biology department at Harvard University. He is author of the best-selling textbook, Sensation and Perception (currently in a seventh edition), as well as Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research, and Everyday Experience. He has published numerous papers on visual physiology and visual perception and served as editor of The Blackwell Handbook of Perception. He teaches sensation and perception, introductory psychology as a natural science, the psychology of gender, and the psychology of art, and in 2001 he received the University of Pittsburgh Chancellor′s Distinguished Teaching Award.
