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Understanding the secrets of human perception / Professor Peter M. Vishton.

[PDF workbook version].

[Chantilly, Va.] : Teaching Company, [2011]

Prince Frederick, MD : [Distributed by] Recorded Books

©2011

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 PDF.

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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.

Great courses. Science & mathematics.

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.

Senses and sensation.

Perception.

Instructional films.

Educational films.

Vishton, Peter M., author, speaker.

Vishton, Peter M., teacher.

Teaching Company.

Recorded Books, LLC.

Course no. 1674.

The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures.

Accompanying PDF contains course workbook in CD-ROM format.

Lecturer: Professor Peter M. Vishton, The College of William & Mary.

DVD; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.

For private home use only.

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 -- 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 -- Perception in action -- Attention and perception -- Kinesthetic perception -- Seeing, remembering, inferring infants -- How infants sense and act on their world -- Illusions and magic -- 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.

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