Foundations of Sensation and Perception | Psychology

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Foundations of Sensation and Perception offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the science of sensation and perception. It covers all the human senses and answers many questions such as why movies are so convincing how ventriloquism works why things sound different as you get older and why you may feel ill in an aircraft or sea vessel. Full of illustrations and graphs that bring concepts to life the textbook covers vision hearing balance touch pain smell and taste. It discusses each sensory system through its fundamental neuroscience major perceptual qualities and underlying coding principles. Each chapter includes reflective questions key terms and information boxes and chap…