Sensation and Perception

Sensation and Perception is a cutting edge and highly readable account of modern sensation and perception from both a cognitive and neurocognitive perspective. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, authors Bennett L. Schwartz and John H. Krantz offer readers the most relevant topics in the field of sensation and perception. Rich in examples and applications to everyday life, the text includes an emphasis on areas of interest to students, namely, music, clinical applications, neuropsychology, and interesting animal perception systems. Updates to the Third Edition include revised chapters throughout, new science, and interactive video links.

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Bennett L. Schwartz received his PhD in 1993 from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Since

then he has been at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida, where he is currently professor

of psychology. He is author or editor of 10 published books as well as over 70 journal articles and

chapters. His textbook Memory: Foundations and Applications, fourth edition (SAGE), was published in

2020. He has won several teaching awards at FIU and currently teaches courses in memory, cognition,

and sensation and perception. His main research area is metacognition and memory, but he has also

conducted research in diverse areas that range from visual perception to evolutionary psychology, to

the language of thought, and to memory in nonhuman primates. Schwartz currently serves as the editor

in chief of New Ideas in Psychology.

John H. Krantz received his psychology PhD from the University of Florida. After graduate school, he

worked in industry at Honeywell on visual factors related to cockpit displays. In 1990, he returned to

academia, taking a position at Hanover College. John has done extensive research in vision, human factors,

computers in psychology, and the use of the Web as a medium for psychological research. He has

been program chair and president of the Society for Computers in Psychology and editor of the journal

Behavior Research Methods. John was the first to develop Web experiments in psychological science and

led the way on techniques for sending multimedia via the Web. He has served as a faculty associate for

The Psychology Place, developing interactive learning activities, and created psychology’s first global

website for the Association for Psychological Science (APS). In addition, he is an author for both the

Cognitive Toolkit and PsychSim 6. John is well known for his widely used online psychological experiments

related to sensation, perception, and cognition. His current research is focused on using the Web

for psychological research and modeling the visual system.