Sensation and Perception - Hardcover

Goldstein, E. Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534096727 ISBN 13: 9780534096724

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co, 1989

Synopsis

This text is intended for undergraduate and graduate courses in sensation and perception, sensory processes, perception and vision. With a new emphasis on establishing principles it provides an up-to-date account of the diverse research in the field while helping students place those facts in a meaningful context.

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About the Author

BRUCE GOLDSTEIN is Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona. He has received the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Pittsburgh for his classroom teaching and textbook writing. He received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Tufts University and his PhD in experimental psychology from Brown University; he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Biology Department at Harvard University before joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. Bruce has published papers on a wide variety of topics, including retinal and cortical physiology, visual attention, and the perception of pictures. He is the author of SENSATION AND PERCEPTION, 9th Edition (Cengage, 2014), and the editor of the BLACKWELL HANDBOOK OF PERCEPTION (Blackwell, 2001) and the two-volume SAGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PERCEPTION (Sage, 2010).

Review

"The 'Across the Senses' section is a great idea. The examples that Goldstein has come up with are quite entertaining, and frankly would be fun to talk about in class."

"This book is much improved from the Fourth Edition. Goldstein has done a good job of explaining difficult material. Rush the text to publication."

"The text . . . is exceptional in its quality, organization, pedagogy, and academic credentials. I really think Goldstein has taken giant steps toward his goal of a 'simpler' more straightforward approach."

"I have found Goldstein's Fourth Edition to be the best book on the market. The Fifth Edition is even better, as it integrates ecological approaches to perception more thoroughly, includes more findings on the application of perceptual information to everyday behavior, and expands and updates the text with exciting new discoveries about the neural bases of sensation and perception."

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534096727
• ISBN 13: 9780534096724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 640