AE Sensation and Perception,
10th Edition

1. Introduction to Perception.
2. The Beginnings of the Perceptual Process.
3. Neural Processing
4. Cortical Organization.
5. Perceiving Objects and Scenes.
6. Visual Attention.
7. Taking Action.
8. Perceiving Motion.
9. Perceiving Color.
10. Perceiving Depth and Size.
11. Hearing I: Basic Processes and Pitch Perception.
12. Hearing II: Localization and Organization.
13. Speech Perception.
14. The Cutaneous Senses.
15. The Chemical Senses.
Appendix A: Methods of Adjustment and Constant Stimuli.
Appendix B: The Difference Threshold.
Appendix C: Magnitude Estimation and The Power Function.
Appendix D: The Signal Detection Approach.

• E. Bruce Goldstein

  E. Bruce Goldstein is an associate professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and is affiliated with the department of psychology at the University of Arizona. He received the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Pittsburgh for his classroom teaching and textbook writing. Before joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the biology department at Harvard University. Dr. Goldstein has published papers on a wide variety of topics, including retinal and cortical physiology, visual attention and the perception of pictures. The author of COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: CONNECTING MIND, RESEARCH AND EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE, 5th Edition (Cengage, 2019) and THE MIND: CONSCIOUSNESS, PREDICTION AND THE BRAIN (MIT, 2020), he edited the BLACKWELL HANDBOOK OF PERCEPTION (Blackwell, 2001) and the two-volume SAGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PERCEPTION (Sage, 2010). He is currently teaching courses in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, for learners over 50, at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Arizona, including Your Amazing Mind, Cognition and Aging, The Social and Emotional Mind, and The Mystery and Science of Shadows. He received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Tufts University and his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Brown University.

• James Brockmole

• Chapter-ending "Think About It" questions take students beyond the chapter material and ask them to apply what they have learned.

• "Demonstrations" provide perceptual experiences that illustrate principles discussed in the text. The demonstrations are simple enough so that students can easily comprehend them; they are also integrated into the flow of the narrative so that they become part of the ongoing story. Topics include finding faces in a landscape, perceiving size at a distance, and "tasting" with and without the nose.

• "Methods" sections, which are integrated into the ongoing discussion, emphasize the importance of methods and show how some of the facts presented in the book were obtained. Topics include preferential looking, neural mind reading, habituation, and color matching, among many others.

• "Something to Consider," the last section of every chapter, discusses a particularly interesting new finding, wraps up an intriguing topic discussed in the chapter, or highlights a practical application of a chapter topic. Topics include distracted driving (Chapter 6), connections between hearing and vision (Chapter 12), and the Proust effect (Chapter 15).

• The "Developmental Dimension" feature, which was introduced in the ninth edition and has proven to be popular, has been slightly expanded in this edition. This feature, which appears at the end of chapters, focuses on perception in infants and young children.

• "Test Yourself" questions in the middle and at the end of each chapter allow students to test their understanding of the material just read.

• "Demonstrations" provide perceptual experiences that illustrate principles discussed in the text. The demonstrations are simple enough so that students can easily comprehend them; they are also integrated into the flow of the narrative so that they become part of the ongoing story. Topics include finding faces in a landscape, perceiving size at a distance, and "tasting" with and without the nose.

• "Demonstrations" provide perceptual experiences that illustrate principles discussed in the text. The demonstrations are simple enough so that students can easily comprehend them; they are also integrated into the flow of the narrative so that they become part of the ongoing story. Topics include finding faces in a landscape, perceiving size at a distance, and "tasting" with and without the nose.

• "Methods" sections, which are integrated into the ongoing discussion, emphasize the importance of methods and show how some of the facts presented in the book were obtained. Topics include preferential looking, neural mind reading, habituation, and color matching, among many others.

• "Something to Consider," the last section of every chapter, discusses a particularly interesting new finding, wraps up an intriguing topic discussed in the chapter, or highlights a practical application of a chapter topic. Topics include distracted driving (Chapter 6), connections between hearing and vision (Chapter 12), and the Proust effect (Chapter 15).

• The "Developmental Dimension" feature, which was introduced in the ninth edition and has proven to be popular, has been slightly expanded in this edition. This feature, which appears at the end of chapters, focuses on perception in infants and young children.

• "Test Yourself" questions in the middle and at the end of each chapter allow students to test their understanding of the material just read.

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