Sensory Processes; Author: Soderquist, David R.; Hardback; Book

Author: Soderquist, David R.
Hardback; Book
400 pages
Published: February 2002
Sage Publications Ltd
ISBN: 0761923330

This core text emphasizes the underlying neural structures and functions of sensory systems (pain, olfaction, gustation, audition, vision, etc.) and presents this complex material at a level comprehensible to undergraduates as well as beginning graduate students. The text begins with a review of the central nervous system and its sensory components and includes discussions of methodological techniques and procedures used to study sensory processes.This text for psychology students as well as those studying medicine and anthropology provides an introduction to sensory perception from a neuroscience perspective. Although the emphasis is on the neurological aspects of each sensory system, issues of perception are addressed as well. Anomalies and