Sensation and Perception
by E. Bruce Goldstein · E. Bruce Goldstein
Goldstein's undergraduate textbook on the senses, linking perceptual experience to underlying physiology across vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell. Readers come away able to trace a percept from receptor to cortex and interpret psychophysical evidence.
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