Comparative Perception, Basic Mechanisms (Wiley Series in Neuroscience) (Volume 1)

By William C. Stebbins

This volume features sections on discrimination, localization and development, with chapters on several sensory modalities including vision, hearing, taste and touch. It covers a variety of problems related to such sensory and perceptual phenomena as contrast sensitivity, sound localization, movement discrimination and development. The section on development focuses on animal studies but also includes related studies on preverbal human children. The text has been aimed at biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, graduate students in sensory biology and psychology, and researchers in related fields.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471631671
• ISBN13: 9780471631675
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Length: 527 Pages
• Weight: 2.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.4" x 6.5"