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1 online resource (995 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contributors; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Foundations of Vision; The Purpose of Vision; Perception, Introspection, and Psychophysics; Signal Detection Theory; Characterizing Visual Sensitivity; Why Vision Is a Hard Computational Problem; Perception as Statistical Inference; Functional Organization of the Visual System; Retina; Magnocellular, Parvocellular, and Koniocellular Pathways; Lateral Geniculate Nucleus; Primary Visual Cortex (V1); Extrastriate Visual Areas; Higher Order Visual Areas; Mechanisms Underlying Visual Perception; Visual Feature Perception |
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Neural Bases of Visual Feature PerceptionVisual Segmentation and Figure-Ground Perception; Effects of Visual Context; Visual Attention; Attentional Modulation of Neural Responses; Attending to Multiple Spatial Locations; Attending to Visual Features; Attending to Objects; Sources of Top-Down Attentional Feedback; Object Recognition; Early Models of Object Recognition; Deep Learning Models of Object Recognition; Face Recognition and Subordinate-Level Discrimination; Neural Mechanisms of Face Processing; Concluding Remarks and Future Directions; References; Chapter 2: Audition; Introduction |
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The ProblemSound Measurement-The Peripheral Auditory System; Frequency Selectivity and the Cochlea; Amplitude Compression; Neural Coding in the Auditory Nerve; Feedback; Sound Measurement-Modulation; Subcortical Auditory Pathways; Amplitude Modulation and the Envelope; Modulation Tuning; Primary Auditory Cortex; Spectrotemporal Modulation Tuning; Tonotopy; Nonprimary Auditory Cortex; Sound Source Perception; Localization; Pitch; Loudness; Auditory Scene Analysis; Sound Segregation and Acoustic Grouping Cues; Sequential Grouping; Streaming; Sound Texture; Filling In |
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Separating Sound Sources From the EnvironmentThe Future of Hearing Research; References; Chapter 3: Taste; What Does Taste Do?; The Omnivore's Dilemma; Wisdom of the Body: An Early Solution to the Omnivore's Dilemma?; Failure of Wisdom of the Body: Importance of Learning; How Does Taste Work?; Taste Buds; Taste Papillae; Localization of Taste Experience; The Myth of the Tongue Map; Ascending Taste Pathways and the Taste CNS; Taste Qualities; Ionic Stimuli: Salts and Acids; Sweet and Bitter; Are There More Than Four Basic Tastes? |
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Nonoral Locations of Taste Receptors: Glutamate and Fatty Acid ReceptorsCoding of Taste Quality in the Nervous System; What Is Flavor?; How Taste Can Go Wrong: Clinical Pathologies; Genetic Variation in Taste; Taste Blindness; Discovery of Supertasters; When Do Taste and Flavor Fail to Contribute to Survival?; References; Chapter 4: Olfaction; Introduction; The Olfactory Stimulus; Anatomy; The Nose; Chemosensory Systems; Main Olfactory Epithelium; Olfactory Bulb; Central Olfactory System; Summary; Olfactory Coding; Intensity; Valence; Organizing the Olfactory Stimuli; Psychophysics |
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Detection Thresholds |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cognitive neuroscience.
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Psychology, Experimental.
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Cognitive neuroscience
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Psychology, Experimental
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Serences, John
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| ISBN |
9781119174073 |
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1119174074 |
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9781119174158 |
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1119174155 |
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