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E. Bruce Goldstein – Encyclopedia of PerceptionThe field of perception is devoted to explaining the operation of the senses and the experiences and behaviors resulting from stimulation of the senses. Perceptual processes such as recognizing faces, seeing color, hearing music, and feeling pain represent the actions of complex mechanisms, yet we usually do them easily. The Encyclopedia of Perception presents a comprehensive overview of the field of perception through authoritative essays written by leading researchers and theoreticians in psychology, the cognitive sciences, neuroscience, and medical disciplines. It presents two parallel and interacting approaches: the psychophysical, or determining the relationship between stimuli in the environment and perception, and the physiological, or locating the biological systems responsible for perception. Are there any processes not associated with perception? Surely there are, but the pervasiveness of perception is truly impressive, and the phenomena of perception and its mechanisms are what this encyclopedia is about.Key Features    Contains 16 pages of color illustration and photography to accompany the entries    Offers a varied and broad list of topics, including basic research as well as methodologies, theoretical approaches, and real-world applications of perceptual research    Emphasizes human perception but includes ample research because of its importance in its own right and because of what this research tells us about human perception    Written by recognized experts from many disciplines but for an audience with no previous background in perception-students and members of the general public alikeKey Themes    Action    Attention    Audition    Chemical Senses    Cognition and Perception    Computers and Perception    Consciousness    Disorders of Perception    Illusory Perceptions    Individual Differences (Human) and Comparative (Across Species; Not Including Ageing, Disorders, and Perceptual Development)    Methods    Perceptual Development/Experience    Philosophical Approaches    Physiological Processes    Sense Interaction    Skin and Body Senses    Theoretical Approaches    Visual Perception