| Description |
12 audio discs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + course guidebooks (19 cm.). |
| Series |
Great courses |
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Great courses.
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| System Details |
Compact disc. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references in guidebooks. |
| Performer |
Lectures delivered by Professor Francis B. Colavita, University of Pittsburgh. |
| Summary |
"Professor Francis Colavita offers a biopsychological perspective on the way we humans navigate and react to the world around us in a process that is ever-changing. Our experiences are vastly different today than they were when we were children and our senses and brains were still developing; and those experiences are becoming ever more different as we age, when natural changes alert us to the need to compensate, often in ways that are quite positive"--Publisher's website. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Lecture 1. Sensation, perception, and behavior -- Lecture 2. Sensation and perception--a distinction -- Lecture 3. Vision--stimulus and the optical system -- Lecture 4. Vision--the retina -- Lecture 5. Vision--beyond the optic nerve -- Lecture 6. Vision--age-related changes -- Lecture 7. Hearing--stimulus and supporting structures -- Lecture 8. Hearing--the inner ear -- Lecture 9. Hearing--age-related changes -- Lecture 10. The cutaneous system--receptors, pathways -- Lecture 11. The cutaneous system--early development -- Lecture 12. The cutaneous system--age-related changes -- |
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Part 2. Lecture 13. Pain--early history -- Lecture 14. Pain--acupuncture, endorphines, and aging -- Lecture 15. Taste--stimulus, structures, and receptors -- Lecture 16. Taste--factors influencing preferences -- Lecture 17. Smell--the unappreciated sense -- Lecture 18. Smell--consequences of anosmia -- Lecture 19. The vestibular system--body orientation -- Lecture 20. The kinesthetic sense--motor memory -- Lecture 21. Brain mechanisms and perception -- Lecture 22. Perception of language -- Lecture 23. The visual agnosias -- Lecture 24. Perception of other people/course summary. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Senses and sensation.
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Senses and sensation in old age.
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Perception.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1598032283 |
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9781598032284 |
| Music No. |
1546 Teaching Company |
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