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Vishton, Peter M.
Senses and sensation.
Perception.
MARC Display
Understanding the secrets of
human
perception
[videorecording (DVD)] / Peter M. Vishton.
by
Vishton, Peter M.
Teaching Company, 2011.
Call #:
DVD 152.1 V829u
Subjects
Senses and sensation.
Perception
.
Series
Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Biology.
Great courses (DVD)
ISBN:
9781598037852 (set)
Alternate title:
Great Courses. Understanding the secrets of
human
perception
[videorecording (DVD)]
Secrets of
human
perception
[videorecording (DVD)]
Human
perception
[videorecording (DVD)]
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] /
Description:
4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 187 p. : ill. ; 19 cm).
Notes:
Course No. 1674.
"24 lectures ; 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.
Accompanying guidebook includes professor biography, course scope, lecture guides, and bibliography.
Special features: About the professor.
Home use only.
Contents:
Disc 1. Your amazing, intelligent senses -- The physiological hardware of your senses -- Neuroimaging: the sensory brain at work -- Brain modules: subcomponents of the senses -- Perceiving a world in motion -- Seeing distance and depth -- Disc 2. Seeing color and light -- Your world of taste and olfaction -- Hearing the world around you -- Speech and language
perception
-- Touch: temperature, vibration, and pressure -- Pain: how it works for you -- Disc 3.
Perception
in action -- Attention and
perception
-- Kinesthetic
perception
-- Seeing, remembering, inferring infants -- How infants sense and act on their world -- Illusions and magic -- Disc 4. Perceiving emotion -- Sensing the thoughts of others: ESP -- Opponent process for
perception
and life -- Synthesia: tasting color and seeing sound -- How your sensory systems learn -- Fixing, replacing, and enhancing the senses.
Production:
The Teaching Company.
Performers:
Lecturer: Professor Peter M. Vishton, The College of William & Mary.
Summary:
Discover the secret life of your senses with Professor Peter M. Vishton. With him as your authoritative guide, you'll consider each of your senses from a wide range of perspectives, explore how your brain processes different sensory information, consider how your senses work together and within the real-world context of the environment around you, and discover how your senses connect you to the world and to other people.
Genre:
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Teaching Company.
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1
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