Workshops in Perception

ISBN-13: 9781138200647 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 194 str.

Rod Power; Steven Hausfeld; Angela Gorta

Opis

Originally published in 1981, Workshops in Perception is designed to enable students to devise their own experiments in sensory processes or perception. The thirty workshops include over a hundred different possible student projects covering the full range of the senses and interactions among them.

Spis treści

Preface.  Introduction to the Workshops.  Seeing  1. Peripheral Colour Vision  2. The Pulfrich Stereophenomenon  3. Searching for Names on Maps.  Hearing  4. Musical Illusions  5. The Verbal Transformation Effect  6. Human Echo Perception.  Tasting and Smelling  7. Human Olfactory Communication  8. Odour-Taste Interactions  9. Tastes of Sub-adapting Concentrations.  Skin and Body Senses  10. The Effect of Feedback on the Two-point Touch Threshold  11. Touch After-effects Contingent on Orientation  12. Bodily Perception of the Vertical.  Interacting Modalities  13. Visual Dominance  14. The Size-Weight Illusion  15. The Role of Vision in Auditory Localisation. Constancy and Illusion  16. The Horizontal-Vertical Illusion in the Great Outdoors  17. The Microgenesis of Illusions  18. Constancy and Illusory Judgments of Motion.  Adaptation and After-Effects  19. The McCollough Effect  20. Motion After-effects and Interocular Transfer  21. Visual After-images.  Perceptual Development  22. The Visual Cliff  23. Auditory-Visual Coordination  24. Lifespan Development of Perception.  Perception of Language  25. Perceptual Span in Reading  26. Listening to Compressed Speech  27. Speechreading.  Social Perception  28. Cross-modality Scaling of Money  29. Perception of ‘Mental illness’  30. Gender-of-Gait Perception.

O autorze

R. P. Power, S. Hausfeld, A. Gorta