Sensation and Perception

Bennett L. Schwartz received his PhD in 1993 from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Sincethen he has been at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida, where he is currently professorof psychology. He is author or editor of 10 published books as well as over 70 journal articles andchapters. His textbook Memory: Foundations and Applications, fourth edition (SAGE), was published in2020. He has won several teaching awards at FIU and currently teaches courses in memory, cognition,and sensation and perception. His main research area is metacognition and memory, but he has alsoconducted research in diverse areas that range from visual perception to evolutionary psychology, tothe language of thought, and to memory in nonhuman primates. Schwartz currently serves as the editorin chief of New Ideas in Psychology.John H. Krantz received his psychology PhD from the University of Florida. After graduate school, heworked in industry at Honeywell on visual factors related to cockpit displays. In 1990, he returned toacademia, taking a position at Hanover College. John has done extensive research in vision, human factors,computers in psychology, and the use of the Web as a medium for psychological research. He hasbeen program chair and president of the Society for Computers in Psychology and editor of the journalBehavior Research Methods. John was the first to develop Web experiments in psychological science andled the way on techniques for sending multimedia via the Web. He has served as a faculty associate forThe Psychology Place, developing interactive learning activities, and created psychology’s first globalwebsite for the Association for Psychological Science (APS). In addition, he is an author for both theCognitive Toolkit and PsychSim 6. John is well known for his widely used online psychological experimentsrelated to sensation, perception, and cognition. His current research is focused on using the Webfor psychological research and modeling the visual system.

• ISLE ActivitiesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsChapter 1: What Is Perception?IntroductionIntroduction to Sensation and PerceptionThe Basics of PerceptionThe History of Sensation and PerceptionNeuroscience in Sensation and PerceptionChapter 2: Research MethodologyIntroductionPsychophysics: The Method of LimitsThe Method of Constant Stimuli and the Method of AdjustmentMagnitude EstimationSignal Detection TheoryNeuroimaging TechniquesChapter 3: Visual System: The EyeIntroductionLightThe Eye and Its Role in the Visual SystemThe RetinaThe Duplex Theory of VisionRetinal Ganglion Cells and Receptive FieldsRefractive Errors and Diseases of the EyeChapter 4: Visual System: The BrainIntroductionThe Optic Nerve, Chiasm, and the Lateral Geniculate NucleusThe Superior Colliculus and the Primary Visual CortexFunctional Pathways in the Visual CortexThe Ventral and Dorsal Pathways in the BrainDevelopment of the Visual SystemChapter 5: Object PerceptionIntroductionIntroduction to Object PerceptionTop-Down Processing and Bottom-Up ProcessingGestalt Psychology and Perceptual OrganizationThe Neuroanatomy and Physiology of Object PerceptionChapter 6: Color PerceptionIntroductionWavelengths of Light and ColorAdditive and Subtractive Color MixingThe Retina and ColorThe Trichromatic Theory of Color VisionThe Opponent-Process Theory of Color PerceptionThe Development of Color PerceptionVariations in Color VisionConstancy: Lightness and Color ConstancyChapter 7: Depth and Size PerceptionIntroductionMonocular Depth CuesOculomotor CuesBinocular Cues to DepthStereogramsSize Perception and ConstancyVisual Illusions of Size and DepthChapter 8: Movement and ActionIntroductionHow Do We Perceive Motion?Form Perception and Motion Perception: Detecting Global MotionActionThe Neuroscience of Motion PerceptionChapter 9: Visual AttentionIntroductionSelective AttentionSpatial Limits of AttentionStimulus Features That Draw AttentionAttention Over TimeThe Anatomy and Physiology of AttentionChapter 10: The Auditory SystemIntroductionSound as StimulusAnatomy of the Ear: The Outer Ear and the Middle EarAnatomy of the Ear: The Inner EarChapter 11: The Auditory Brain and Sound LocalizationIntroductionBrain Anatomy and the Pathway of HearingLocalizing SoundAuditory Scene AnalysisChapter 12: Speech PerceptionIntroductionThe Human Voice as StimulusVariability in the Acoustics of PhonemesTheories of Speech PerceptionSpeech Perception and the BrainChapter 13: Music PerceptionIntroductionThe Acoustics of MusicThe Neuroscience of MusicLearning, Culture, and Music PerceptionChapter 14: Touch and PainIntroductionThe Skin and Its ReceptorsNeural PathwaysThe Neurochemistry of Pain: Endogenous Opioids and the Perception of ItchHaptic PerceptionThe Vestibular System: The Perception of BalanceChapter 15: Olfaction and TasteIntroductionOlfactionOlfactory PerceptionTaste PerceptionGlossaryReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index