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Understanding the secrets of human perception [digital videodisc] / the Teaching Company ; Professor Peter M. Vishton.

Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, [2011]

Senses and sensation.

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.

4 videodiscs (approximately 12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 187 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

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.

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.

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