Test Bank Sensation and Perception 5th Edition by Jeremy Wolfe
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Test Bank Sensation and Perception 5th Edition by Jeremy Wolfe
Sensation & Perception, Fifth Edition introduces students to their own senses, emphasizing human sensory and perceptual experience and the basic neuroscientific underpinnings of that experience.
ISBN-10 : 1605356417
ISBN-13 : 978-1605356419
Jeremy M. Wolfe (Author), Keith R. Kluender (Author), Dennis M. Levi (Author), Linda M. Bartoshuk (Author), Rachel S. Herz (Author), Roberta L. Klatzky (Author), Daniel M. Merfeld (Author)
Table Of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Welcome to Our World
Sensation and Perception
Thresholds and the Dawn of Psychophysics
Psychophysical Methods
Scaling Methods
Signal Detection Theory
Fourier Analysis
Sensory Neuroscience and the Biology of Perception
Neuronal Connections
Neural Firing: The Action Potential
Neuroimaging
Development over the Life Span
Summary
Chapter 2. The First Steps in Vision: From Light to Neural Signals
A Little Light Physics
Eyes That Capture Light
Focusing Light onto the Retina
The Retina
What the Doctor Saw
Retinal Geography and Function
Dark and Light Adaptation
Pupil Size
Photopigment Regeneration
Box: Sensation & Perception in Everyday Life: When Good Retina Goes Bad
The Duplex Retina
Neural Circuitry
Retinal Information Processing
Light Transduction by Rod and Cone Photoreceptors
Lateral Inhibition through Horizontal and Amacrine Cells
Convergence and Divergence of Information via Bipolar Cells
Communicating to the Brain via Ganglion Cells
Box: Scientists at Work: Is One Photon Enough to See?
Summary
Chapter 3. Spatial Vision: From Spots to Stripes
Visual Acuity: Oh Say, Can You See?
A Visit to the Eye Doctor
More Types of Visual Acuity
Acuity for Low-Contrast Stripes
Why Sine Wave Gratings?
Retinal Ganglion Cells and Stripes
The Lateral Geniculate Nucleus
The Striate Cortex
The Topography of the Human Cortex
Some Perceptual Consequences of Cortical Magnification
Receptive Fields in Striate Cortex
Orientation Selectivity
Other Receptive-Field Properties
Simple and Complex Cells
Further Complications
Columns and Hypercolumns
Selective Adaptation: The Psychologists Electrode
The Site of Selective Adaptation Effects
Spatial Frequency-Tuned Pattern Analyzers in Human Vision
The Development of Vision
Box: Sensation & Perception in Everyday Life: The Girl Who Almost Couldnt See Stripes
Development of the Contrast Sensitivity Function
Box: Scientists at Work: Does the Ducks Left Eye Know What the Right Eye Saw?
Summary
Chapter 4. Perceiving and Recognizing Objects
From Simple Lines and Edges to Properties of Objects
Box: Scientists at Work: Rüdiger von der Heydt, Border Ownership, and Transparency
What and Where Pathways
The Problems of Perceiving and Recognizing Objects
Mid-level Vision
Finding Edges
Texture Segmentation and Grouping
Figure and Ground
Dealing with Occlusion
Parts and Wholes
Summarizing Mid-level Vision
From Metaphor to Formal Model
Box: Sensation & Perception in Everyday Life: Material Perception: The Everyday Problem of Knowing What It Is Made Of
Object Recognition
Multiple Recognition Committees?
Faces: An Illustrative Special Case
Summary
Chapter 5. The Perception of Color
Basic Principles of Color Perception
Three Steps to Color Perception
Step 1: Color Detection
Step 2: Color Discrimination
The Principle of Univariance
The Trichromatic Solution
Metamers
The History of Trichromatic Theory
A Brief Digression into Lights, Filters, and Finger Paints
From Retina to Brain: Repackaging the Information
Cone-Opponent Cells in the Retina and LGN
A Different Ganglion Cell Helps to Keep Track of Day and Night
Step 3: Color Appearance
Three Numbers, Many Colors
Box: Sensation & Perception in Everyday Life: Picking Colors
The Limits of the Rainbow
Opponent Colors
Color in the Visual Cortex
Individual Differences in Color Perception
Language and Color
Genetic Differences in Color Vision
From the Color of Lights to a World of Color
Adaptation and Afterimages
Color Constancy
The Problem with the Illuminant
Physical Constraints Make Constancy Possible
What Is Color Vision Good For?
Box: Scientists at Work: Filtering Colors
Summary
Chapter 6. Space Perception and Binocular Vision
Monocular Cues to Three-Dimensional Space
Pictorial Depth Cues
Occlusion
Size and Position Cues
Aerial Perspective
Linear Perspective
Seeing Depth in Pictures
Triangulation Cues to Three-Dimensional Space
Motion Cues
Accommodation and Convergence
Binocular Vision and Stereopsis
Stereoscopes and Stereograms
Box: Sensation & Perception in Everyday Life: Recovering Stereo Vision
Random Dot Stereograms
Using Stereopsis
Stereoscopic Correspondence
The Physiological Basis of Stereopsis and Depth Perception
Combining Depth Cues
The Bayesian Approach Revisited
Illusions and the Construction of Space
Binocular Rivalry and Suppression
Development of Binocular Vision and Stereopsis
Abnormal Visual Experience Can Disrupt Binocular Vision
Box: Scientists at Work: Stereopsis in a Hunting Insect
Summary
Chapter 7. Attention and Scene Perception
Selection in Space
The “Spotlight” of Attention
Visual Search
Feature Searches Are Efficient
Many Searches Are Inefficient
In Real-World Searches, Basic Features Guide Visual Search
In Real-World Searches, Properties of Scenes Guide Visual Search
The Binding Problem in Visual Search
Attending in Time: RSVP and the Attentional Blink
The Physiological Basis of Attention
Attention Could Enhance Neural Activity
Attention Could Enhance the Processing of a Specific Type of Stimulus
Attention and Single Cells
Attention May Change the Way Neurons Talk to Each Other
Disorders of Visual Attention
Neglect
Extinction
Box: Sensation & Perception in Everyday Life: Selective Attention and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Perceiving and Understanding Scenes
Two Pathways to Scene Perception
The Nonselective Pathway Computes Ensemble Statistics
The Nonselective Pathway Computes Scene Gist and Layout–Very Quickly
Box: Scientists at Work: Do Ensembles Make Gists?
Memory for Objects and Scenes Is Amazingly Good
But, Memory for Objects and Scenes Can Be Amazingly Bad: Change Blindness
What Do We Actually See?
Summary
Chapter 8. Visual Motion Perception
Motion Aftereffects
Computation of Visual Motion
Apparent Motion
The Correspondence Problem–Viewing through an Aperture
Detection of Global Motion in Area MT
Box: Sensation & Perception in Everyday Life: The Man Who Couldnt See Motion
Second-Order Motion
Motion Induced Blindness (MIB)
Using Motion Information
Going with the Flow: Using Motion Information to Navigate
Avoiding Imminent Collision: The Tao of Tau
Something in the Way You Move: Using Motion Information to Identify Objects
Eye Movements
Physiology and Types of Eye Movements
Eye Movements and Reading
Saccadic Suppression and the Comparator
Updating the Neural Mechanisms for Eye Movement Compensation
Development of Motion Perception
Box: Scientists at Work: Guess Whos Coming to Dinner
Summary
Chapter 9. Hearing: Physiology and Psychoacoustics
The Function of Hearing
What Is Sound?
Basic Qualities of Sound Waves: Frequency and Amplitude
Sine Waves and Complex Sounds
Basic Structure of the Mammalian Auditory System
Outer Ear
Middle Ear
Inner Ear
The Auditory Nerve
Auditory Brain Structures
Basic Operating Characteristics of the Auditory System
Intensity and Loudness
Box: Scientists at Work: Why Dont Manatees Get Out of the Way When a Boat Is Coming?
Frequency and Pitch
Hearing Loss
Treating Hearing Loss
Using versus Detecting Sound
Box: Sensation & Perception in Everyday Life: Electronic Ears
Summary
Chapter 10. Hearing in the