| Description |
12 audio discs (2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guidebook (vi, 187 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm). |
| Series |
The great courses ; Science & Mathematics ; Biology |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Lectures by Professor Peter M. Vishton, College of William & Mary. |
| Note |
24 lectures, each 30 min. |
| System Details |
Compact discs. |
| Note |
In two containers (18 cm.). |
| Bibliography |
Guidebook Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187). |
| Contents |
Volume 1, disc 1, lecture 1. Your amazing, intelligent senses -- disc 1, lecture 2. The physiological hardware of your senses -- disc 2, lecture 3. Neuroimaging -- the sensory brain at work -- disc 2, lecture 4. Brain modules -- subcomponents of the senses -- disc 3, lecture 5. Perceiving a world in motion -- disc 3, lecture 6. Seeing distance and depth -- disc 4, lecture 7. Seeing color and light -- disc 4, lecture 8. Your world of taste and olfaction -- disc 5, lecture 9. Hearing the world around you -- disc 5, lecture 10. Speech and language perception -- disc 6, lecture 11. Touch -- temperature, vibration, and pressure -- disc 6, lecture 12. Pain -- how it works for you -- Volume 2, disc 7, lecture 13. Perception in action -- disc 7, lecture 14. Attention and perception -- disc 8, lecture 15. Kinesthetic perception -- disc 8, lecture 16. Seeing, remembering, inferring infants -- disc 9, lecture 17. How infants sense and act on their world -- disc 9, lecture 18. Illusions and magic -- disc 10, lecture 19. Perceiving emotion in others and ourselves -- disc 10, lecture 20. Sensing the thoughts of others -- ESP -- disc 11, lecture 21. Opponent process for perception and life -- disc 11, lecture 22. Synthesia -- tasting color and seeing sound -- disc 12, lecture 23. How your sensory systems learn -- disc 12, lecture 24. Fixing, replacing, and enhancing the senses. |
| Summary |
"This course aims to provide you with a better understanding and appreciation of your own senses - sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell - and explains that human beings actually possess far more than these 5. By showing you how to consider the human senses through the lens of scientific inquiry and giving you a better understanding how the senses function, this course will help you experience the world around you more vividly and in more detail"--Taken from Scope of the course. |
| Subject |
Senses and sensation.
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Perception.
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Perception. (OCoLC)fst01057622
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Senses and sensation. (OCoLC)fst01112562
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks collection -- Nonfiction.
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| Added Author |
Vishton, Peter M.
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Teaching Company.
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| Added Title |
Secrets of human perception |
| ISBN |
1598037846 |
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9781598037845 |
| Standard No. |
9781598037845 |
| Music No. |
IC1674A-01 Teaching Co. |
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IC1674A-02 Teaching Co. |
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