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Sensation, perception, and the aging process

2006

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	Sensation, perception, and the aging process / the Teaching Company ; taught by Professor Francis B. Colavita, University of Pittsburgh.
Publisher, Date:	Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2006] ©2006
Description:	4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guidebook (iv, 123 pages ; 19 cm.)
Summary:	Presents lectures (each 30 minutes in length), offering a biopsychological perspective on the way we humans navigate and react to the world around us in a process that is ever-changing. Our experiences are vastly different today than they were when we were children and our senses and brains were still developing; and those experiences are becoming ever more different as we age, when natural changes alert us to the need to compensate, often in ways that are quite positive.
Series:	The great courses. Science & Mathematics Great courses (DVD)
Subjects:	Senses and sensation. Senses and sensation in old age. Perception.
Genre:	Educational films.
Other Author:	Colavita, Francis B., speaker. Colavita, Francis B., author. Sensation, perception, and the aging process, course guidebook. Teaching Company.
Other Title:	Sensation, perception, and the aging process, parts 1 & 2, course guidebook.
Notes:	Title on accompanying guidebook: "Sensation, perception, and the aging process, parts 1 & 2, course guidebook", taught by Professor Francis B. Colavita. In two containers. "Part 1 of 2, 12 lectures/30 minutes per lecture, 2 DVDs"--Container one. "Part 2 of 2, 12 lectures/30 minutes per lecture, 2 DVDs"--Container two. Course guidebook contains lecture outlines and notes, biographical notes on the lecturer and bibliography. Lectures by Professor Francis B. Colavita, University of Pittsburgh. DVD format.
Contents:	Sensation, perception, and behavior ; Sensation and perception: a distinction ; Vision: stimulus and the optical system ; Vision: the retina ; Vision: beyond the optic nerve ; Vision: age-related changes -- Hearing: stimulus and supporting structures ; Hearing: the inner ear ; Hearing: age-related changes ; Cutaneous system: receptors, pathways ; Cutaneous system: early development ; Cutaneous system: age-related changes. Pain: early history ; Pain: acupuncture, endorphins, and aging ; Taste: stimulus, structures, and receptors ; Taste: factors influencing preferences ; Smell: the unappreciated sense ; Smell: consequences of anosmia -- Vestibular system: body orientation ; Kinesthetic sense: motor memory ; Brain mechanisms and perception ; Perception of language ; Visual agnosias ; Perception of other people/course summary.
ISBN:	1598032291 9781598032291
Publisher Number:	1546 PD1546-01 PD1546-02
Other Number:	540742687
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	628043
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Call Number:	GREAT DVD 612.8 Sensatio

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