(Bulleted items represent a chapter-by-chapter sampling of new
content.)
1. Introduction
2. The First Steps in Vision: From Light to Neural Signals
*New Box: When Good Retina Goes Bad
*New section on recent technologies for restoring sight to the
blind
3. Spatial Vision: From Spots to Stripes
*New Box: The Girl Who Almost Couldn't See Stripes
*Expanded discussion of fMRI and recent advances in image
reconstruction
4. Perceiving and Recognizing Objects
*New Box: Material Perception: The Everyday Problem of Knowing What
It Is Made Of
*Revised discussion of extrastriate areas in human visual
cortex
*New section on material perception
5. The Perception of Color
*New Box: Picking Colors
*Expanded discussion of the role of melanopsin-containing ganglion
cells and their role in circadian rhythms
*Updated section on color processing in the cortex
*New section on the inverted qualia problem (Philosophy)
*Updated section on basic color terms
6. Space Perception and Binocular Vision
*New Box: Recovering Stereo Vision
*New material about recovering binocular stereo vision in
adulthood
*Expanded discussion of linear perspective in art history
*New discussion of the physiology of depth cues other than stereo
and the physiology of depth cues combination
7. Attention and Scene Perception
*New Box: Selective Attention and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD)
*Added section on ADHD and visual attention
*New coverage of endogenous and exogenous cues and of inhibition of
return
*Expanded discusson of "synchrony" as a neural effect of
attention
8. Motion Perception
*New Box: The Man Who Couldn't See Motion
*New coverage of the role of micro saccades in vision
*An update on "Updating the Neural Mechanisms for Eye Movement
Compensation"
9. Hearing: Physiology and Psychoacoustics
*New Box: Electronic Ears
*Expanded coverage of hearing loss
*Updated figures to improve consistency with other chapters
*New material on the function of outer hair cells
*New section on hidden hearing loss
10. Hearing in the Environment
*New Box: Auditory Color Constancy
*New material about aging and auditory localization, and perceptual
constancy for loudness
*New section on auditory attention
11. Music and Speech Perception
*New Box: Music and Emotion
*New content on perfect pitch
*New prose and figure added to improve coverage between Chapters 9
and 11
12. The Vestibular System and our Sense of Equilibrium
*New Box: Evolution and Equilibrium
*New Box: Amusement Park Rides: Vestibular Physics Is Fun
*Redefined "equilibrium" and retitled chapter accordingly
*New section on Vestibular Contributions to Equilibrium
*New section on active vestibular sensing
13. Touch
*New Box: Haptic Virtual Environments
*Expanded discussion of the types of neural fibers in relation to
different sense qualities: mechanical interaction, thermal change,
pleasant touch, and pain
*Expanded coverage of pleasant touch, including cortical pathways
relating it to emotional systems and placebo effects
*New material on the role of the spinal cord in processing haptic
signals before they ascend to the brain
*New information about body image
*New section on individual differences in tactile sensitivity,
including experiential and genetic contributions
14. Olfaction
*New Box: Anosmia
*New Box: Odor-Evoked Memory and the Truth behind Aromatherapy
*New discussion of humans' capacity to smell over a trillion
different odors (i.e., an infinite number), formally believed to be
in the tens of thousands to one-hundred-thousand range
*New research and discussion on the effects of alcohol and
marijuana on olfactory sensitivity
*New coverage of the discovery of "olfactory white" (potentially
the odor version of white noise or the color white)
*New research on the connection between language and olfaction
*New information on how olfaction changes with age
15. Taste
*New Box: Volatile-Enhanced Taste: A New Way to Safely Alter
Flavors
*Added material on volatile-enhanced taste and the quest for a
better-tasting tomato
*Expanded discussion of the "omnivore's dilemma" : how we are able
to avoid poisons and choose safe foods
*Added material on within-taste bud processing
Glossary
References
Photo Credits
Index
Jeremy M. Wolfe is Professor of Ophthalmology & Radiology at
Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wolfe was trained as a vision
researcher/experimental psychologist and remains one today. His
early work includes papers on binocular vision, adaptation, and
accommodation. The bulk of his recent work has dealt with visual
search and visual attention in the lab and in real world settings
such as airport security and cancer screening. He taught
Introductory Psychology for over twenty-five years at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he won the Baker
Memorial Prize for undergraduate teaching in 1989. He directs the
Visual Attention Lab and the Center for Advanced
Medical Imaging of Brigham & Women's Hospital.
Keith R. Kluender is Professor and Head of Speech, Language, and
Hearing Sciences and Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue
University. His research encompasses: how people hear complex
sounds such as speech; how experience shapes the way we hear; how
what we hear guides our actions and communication; clinical
problems of hearing impairment or language delay; and practical
concerns about computer speech recognition and hearing aid design.
Dr. Kluender is deeply
committed to teaching, and has taught a wide array of courses:
philosophical, psychological, and physiological.
Dennis M. Levi has taught at the University of California, Berkeley
since 2001. He is Professor in the School of Optometry and
Professor at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. In the lab,
Dr. Levi and colleagues use psychophysics, computational modeling,
and brain imaging (fMRI) to study the neural mechanisms of normal
pattern vision in humans, and to learn how they are degraded by
abnormal visual experience (amblyopia).
Linda M. Bartoshuk is Bushnell Professor, Department of Food
Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Florida. Her
research on taste has opened up broad new avenues for further
study, establishing the impact of both genetic and pathological
variation in taste on food preferences, diet, and health. She
discovered that taste normally inhibits other oral sensations such
that damage to taste leads to unexpected consequences like weight
gain and intensified oral pain. Most
recently, working with colleagues in Horticulture, her group found
that a considerable amount of the sweetness in fruit is actually
produced by interactions between taste and olfaction in the brain.
This may lead to a
new way to reduce sugar in foods and beverages.
Rachel S. Herz is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of
Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University and Part-time
Faculty in the Psychology Department at Boston College. Her
research focuses on a number of facets of olfactory cognition and
perception and on emotion, memory, and motivated behavior. Using an
experimental approach grounded in evolutionary theory and
incorporating both cognitive-behavioral and neuropsychological
techniques, Dr. Herz aims to
understand how biological mechanisms and cognitive processes
interact to influence perception, cognition, and behavior.
Roberta L. Klatzky is the Charles J. Queenan Jr. Professor of
Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, where she also holds
faculty appointments in the Center for the Neural Basis of
Cognition and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. She has
done extensive research on haptic and visual object recognition,
space perception and spatial thinking, and motor performance. Her
work has application to haptic interfaces, navigation aids for the
blind, image-guided surgery,
teleoperation, and virtual environments.
Susan J. Lederman is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Queen's
University, with cross-appointments in the Centre for Neuroscience
and in the School of Computing. Her research interests span both
perception and cognition, with particular emphases on
psychophysics, haptic perception and recognition of objects and
their underlying neural processes and representations, multisensory
perception, and sensory-guided motor control. She has applied the
results of her research to a
number of real-world problems, including the design of haptic and
multisensory interfaces for virtual environments and
teleoperation.
Daniel M. Merfeld is a Professor of Otology and Laryngology at the
Harvard Medical School with appointments at the Harvard-MIT Health,
Science, and Technology program and the Harvard School of
Engineering and Applied Science. He is also the Director of the
Jenks Vestibular Physiology Laboratory at the Massachusetts Eye and
Ear Infirmary. Much of his research career has been spent studying
how the brain combines information from multiple sources, with a
specific focus on how the
brain processes ambiguous sensory information from the vestibular
system in the presence of noise. Translational work includes
research developing new methods to help diagnose patients
experiencing vestibular symptoms
and research developing vestibular implants for patients who have
severe problems with their vestibular labyrinth.
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