Perception

Featuring contributions from world-leading researchers, this book explores the relationship between visual perception and memory. It bridges the tr...

A cognitive psychologist and an industrial design engineer draw on their own experiences of cognition in the context of everyday life and work to e...

Epistemological discussions of perception usually focus on something other than knowledge. They consider how beliefs arising from perception can be...

This comprehensive, cutting-edge textbook offers a layered approach to the study of cognitive neuroscience and psychology. It embraces multiple exc...

Ignorance: A Philosophical Study provides an in-depth exploration of ignorance in its many dimensions. Philosophers have long examined epistemologi...

Vision therapy techniques can correct not only visual problems, but also cognitive, emotional and physical difficulties. Based on the pioneering wo...

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? Ho...

Step into the world of the senses ...Meet the four mechanoreceptors of touch, examine our taste buds up close, discover the link between smells and...

Why are we often convinced that we''re right even when we''re wrong?Why are we jealous, or paranoid, even when we have absolutely no reason to be?...

How much does appearance matter in the formation of romantic relationships? Do nice guys always finish last? Does playing hard-to-get ever work? W...

Sensation and Perception covers in detail the perceptual processes related to vision and hearing, taste and smell, touch and pain as well as the ve...

Sensation and Perception covers in detail the perceptual processes related to vision and hearing, taste and smell, touch and pain as well as the ve...

Previously published as Careful!The modern world can be a dangerous place, filled with fast cars, smart phones, drugs and extreme sports. Meanwhile...

The world expert in multisensory perception on the remarkable ways we can use our senses to lead richer lives''Spence does for the senses what Mari...

'Highly accessible, content-rich and eminently readable . . . Fascinating and informative . . . popular science at its best.' - The ObserverHave yo...

This book was conceived as a tribute to one of the founders of the psychological study of the sense of smell, Professor Trygg Engen. The book is di...

The study of risk perception started when experts in these matters figured out that common people often disagreed about how they envisage risk, eve...

Why do things look blurry underwater? Why do people drive too fast in fog? How do you high-pass filter a cup of tea? What have mixer taps to do wit...

With a new reading of Thomas Reid on primary and secondary qualities, Christopher A. Shrock illuminates the Common Sense theory of perception. Shro...

Vision is the most precise and precious sense we possess in biological terms, it functions close to the speed of light and is directly or indirectl...