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Sensation and Perception

Second Edition
by Bennett L. Schwartz and John H. Krantz

Student Resources

  • Interactive Sensation Laboratory Exercises (ISLE)
  1. What is Perception?
    • Learning Objectives
    • Sample ISLE Activities
    • ISLE Quizzing
      • ISLE 1.1: Sequence of Sensory Events
      • ISLE 1.2: Illustration of Action
      • ISLE 1.3: Bach's Violin Partita #2 in D Minor
      • ISLE 1.4: Column Taper Illusion
      • ISLE 1.5: Aristotle's Illusion
      • ISLE 1.6: Motion Aftereffect
      • ISLE 1.7: Fechner Colors and Behnam’s Top
      • ISLE 1.8: Kanizsa Triangle
      • ISLE 1.9: Optic Flow
      • ISLE 1.10: Kuffler and Single Cell Recording
      • ISLE 1.11: Size-Arrival Effect
    • eFlashcards
    • Video and Multimedia
    • SAGE Journal Articles
  2. Research Methodology
    • Learning Objectives
    • Sample ISLE Activities
    • ISLE Quizzing
      • ISLE 2.1: North Carolina Hot Sauce Contest Link
      • ISLE 2.2: Method of Limits
      • ISLE 2.3: Method of Constant Stimuli
      • ISLE 2.4: Method of Adjustment
      • ISLE 2.5: Point of Subjective Equality (PSE)
      • ISLE 2.6: Magnitude Estimation
      • ISLE 2.7: Stevens’s Power Law
      • ISLE 2.8: Forced-Choice
      • ISLE 2.9: Signal Detection Experiment
      • ISLE 2.10: Signal Detection Theory
      • ISLE 2.11: Signal Detection Theory and the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC curve)
      • ISLE 2.12: Masking Demonstration
      • ISLE 2.13: Seeing with Myopia and Presbyopia
    • eFlashcards
    • Video and Multimedia
    • SAGE Journal Articles
  3. Visual System: The Eye
    • Learning Objectives
    • Sample ISLE Activities
    • ISLE Quizzing
      • ISLE 3.1: The Basics of Waves
      • ISLE 3.2: Accommodation
      • ISLE 3.3: Presbyopia
      • ISLE 3.4: Letters and the Fovea
      • ISLE 3.5: Map Your Blind Spot
      • ISLE 3.6: Photopic vs Scotopic Vision
      • ISLE 3.7: Purkinje Shift
      • ISLE 3.8: Convergence
      • ISLE 3.9: Dark Adaptation Function
      • ISLE 3.10: Automatic Light Adjustment in Cockpits
      • ISLE 3.11 (a): Simulating Kuffler's Experiment
      • ISLE 3.11 (b): Center-Surround Receptive Fields as Contrast Detectors
      • ISLE 3.12: Mach Bands
      • ISLE 3.13: Correcting Myopia and Hyperopia
      • ISLE 3.14: Astigmatism
      • ISLE 3.15: Macular Degeneration and Retinitis Pigmentosa
      • ISLE 3.16: Compound Eyes
      • ISLE 3.17: Vision Prostheses
    • eFlashcards
    • Video and Multimedia
    • SAGE Journal Articles
  4. Visual System: The Brain
    • Learning Objectives
    • Sample ISLE Activities
    • ISLE Quizzing
      • ISLE 4.1: From the Eye to the LGN
      • ISLE 4.2: Simple Cells
      • ISLE 4.3: Complex Cells
      • ISLE 4.4: Hypercolumns
      • ISLE 4.5: Navigation in Blindsight
    • eFlashcards
    • Video and Multimedia
    • SAGE Journal Articles
  5. Object Perception
    • Learning Objectives
    • Sample ISLE Activities
    • ISLE Quizzing
      • ISLE 5.1: Segregation and Grouping
      • ISLE 5.2: Ambiguous Figure-Ground Perception
      • ISLE 5.3: Figure-Ground Symmetry
      • ISLE 5.4: Gestalt Laws
      • ISLE 5.5: Necker Cube
      • ISLE 5.6: Illusory Contours
      • ISLE 5.7: Geons
      • ISLE 5.8: Facial Responses in the Brain
    • eFlashcards
    • Video and Multimedia
    • SAGE Journal Articles
  6. Color Perception
    • Learning Objectives
    • Sample ISLE Activities
    • ISLE Quizzing
      • ISLE 6.1: Different Types of White Light
      • ISLE 6.2: Dimensions of Color
      • ISLE 6.3: Newton’s Prism Experiment
      • ISLE 6.4: Color Mixing
      • ISLE 6.5: Color Matching Experiment: Metameric Matches
      • ISLE 6.6: Trichromatic Theory and Cone Responses
      • ISLE 6.7: Univariance and Color Matching
      • ISLE 6.8: Color Aftereffect
      • ISLE 6.9: Simultaneous Color Contrast
      • ISLE 6.10: Hue Cancellation
      • ISLE 6.11: Single and Double-Opponent Cells
      • ISLE 6.12: Color Deficiency Tests
      • ISLE 6.13: Rod Monochromat Vision
      • ISLE 6.14: Dichromacy
      • ISLE 6.15: Illumination and Color Constancy
      • ISLE 6.16: Lightness Constancy
      • ISLE 6.17: Gelb Effect
      • ISLE 6.18: Color Camouflage and Dichromacy
      • ISLE 6.19: Fechner Colors and Behnam's Top
    • eFlashcards
    • Video and Multimedia
    • SAGE Journal Articles
  7. Depth and Size Perception
    • Learning Objectives
    • Sample ISLE Activities
    • ISLE Quizzing
      • ISLE 7.1: Depth Perception in Adanson's Jumping Spider
      • ISLE 7.2: Monocular Depth Cues
      • ISLE 7.3: Motion Depth Cues
      • ISLE 7.4: Accommodation
      • ISLE 7.5: Vergence
      • ISLE 7.6: Stereopsis
      • ISLE 7.7: Binocular Disparity
      • ISLE 7.8: The Construction of Visual Depth with Binocular Disparity
      • ISLE 7.9: Anaglyph Stereograms
      • ISLE 7.10: Random Dot Stereograms
      • ISLE 7.11: Retinal Image Size & Distance
      • ISLE 7.12: Muller-Lyer Illusion
      • ISLE 7.13: Ponzo Illusion
      • ISLE 7.14: Ames Room
      • ISLE 7.15: Moon Illusion
      • ISLE 7.16: Virtual Reality Photographs
      • ISLE 7.17: Virtual Reality and Therapy
    • eFlashcards
    • Video and Multimedia
    • SAGE Journal Articles
  8. Movement and Action
    • Learning Objectives
    • Sample ISLE Activities
    • ISLE Quizzing
      • ISLE 8.1: Relative Motion
      • ISLE 8.2: Time-Lapse Motion
      • ISLE 8.3: Motion Thresholds
      • ISLE 8.4: Apparent Motion
      • ISLE 8.5: Correspondence Problem in Motion (Wagon Wheel Effect)
      • ISLE 8.6: Induced Motion
      • ISLE 8.7: Reichardt Detectors
      • ISLE 8.8: Corollary Discharge
      • ISLE 8.9: Eye Movements
      • ISLE 8.10: Correlated Motion
      • ISLE 8.11: Motion Aftereffect
      • ISLE 8.12: Structure from Motion
      • ISLE 8.13: Biological Motion
      • ISLE 8.14: Cat and Laser Pointer
      • ISLE 8.15: Optic Flow
      • ISLE 8.16: Rotating Snakes
      • ISLE 8.17: Spiral Staircase
      • ISLE 8.18: Illusory Rotation
      • ISLE 8.19: The Furrow Illusion
    • eFlashcards
    • Video and Multimedia
    • SAGE Journal Articles
  9. Visual Attention
    • Learning Objectives
    • Sample ISLE Activities
    • ISLE Quizzing
      • ISLE 9.1: The Stroop Effect
      • ISLE 9.2: Scanning
      • ISLE 9.3: Spatial Cuing
      • ISLE 9.4: Inattentional Blindness Examples
      • ISLE 9.5: Stimulus Salience
      • ISLE 9.6: Feature vs. Conjunction Search
      • ISLE 9.7: Change Blindness
      • ISLE 9.8: RSVP
      • ISLE 9.9: Attentional Blink and Repetition Blindness
      • ISLE 9.10: Hemifield or Unilateral Neglect
      • ISLE 9.11: Bálint’s Syndrome
      • ISLE 9.12: Perceptual Bistability
      • ISLE 9.13: Navigation in Blindsight
    • eFlashcards
    • Video and Multimedia
    • SAGE Journal Articles
  10. The Auditory System
    • Learning Objectives
    • Sample ISLE Activities
    • ISLE Quizzing
      • ISLE 10.1: The Sound Stimulus
      • ISLE 10.2: The Speed of Sound and the Sonic Boom
      • ISLE 10.3: The Decibel Scale
      • ISLE 10.4: Frequency and Pitch on a Piano
      • ISLE 10.5: Frequency Response of the Ear
      • ISLE 10.6: Timbre and Musical Instruments
      • ISLE 10.7: Fourier Analysis in Audition
      • ISLE 10.8: Missing Fundamental
      • ISLE 10.9: Timbre and Overtones
      • ISLE 10.10: Phase and Cancellation
      • ISLE 10.11: The Middle Ear
      • ISLE 10.12: The Basilar Membrane and Sound Stimuli
      • ISLE 10.13: The Traveling Wave
      • ISLE 10.14: Place Code Theory
      • ISLE 10.15: The Basilar Membrane and Fourier Analysis
      • ISLE 10.16: Transduction and Hair Cells
      • ISLE 10.17: Temporal Code Theory
    • eFlashcards
    • Video and Multimedia
    • SAGE Journal Articles
  11. The Auditory Brain and Sound Localization
    • Learning Objectives
    • Sample ISLE Activities
    • ISLE Quizzing
      • ISLE 11.1: Sound Localization Experiment
      • ISLE 11.2: Interaural Time Differences
      • ISLE 11.3: Interaural Level Differences
      • ISLE 11.4: Auditory Scene Analysis
      • ISLE 11.5: Doppler Shift
      • ISLE 11.6: Architectural Space and Echoes
      • ISLE 11.7: Testing a Concert Hall
    • eFlashcards
    • Video and Multimedia
    • SAGE Journal Articles
  12. Speech Perception
    • Learning Objectives
    • Sample ISLE Activities
    • ISLE Quizzing
      • ISLE 12.1: Coarticulation
      • ISLE 12.2: Voicing Onset Time
      • ISLE 12.3: McGurk Effect
      • ISLE 12.4: Familiar vs. Unfamiliar Languages
      • ISLE 12.5: Phonemic Restoration Effect
      • ISLE 12.6: Genie
      • ISLE 12.7: Broca’s and Wernicke’s Aphasia
    • eFlashcards
    • Video and Multimedia
    • SAGE Journal Articles
  13. Music Perception
    • Learning Objectives
    • Sample ISLE Activities
    • ISLE Quizzing
      • ISLE 13.1: Kurdish Music Example
      • ISLE 13.2: Javanese Gamelan Music Example
      • ISLE 13.3: Ancient Greek Music
      • ISLE 13.4: 35,000 Year Old Flute
      • ISLE 13.5: Is This Music?
      • ISLE 13.6: The Octave and Tone Similarity
      • ISLE 13.7: Pentatonic Music Examples
      • ISLE 13.8: Meter and Beat
      • ISLE 13.9: Bolero Clip
      • ISLE 13.10: Attack and Decay
      • ISLE 13.11: Examples of Melody
      • ISLE 13.12: Types of Scales
      • ISLE 13.13: Gestalt Principles Review
      • ISLE 13.14: Bach’s Partita No. 3 in E major
      • ISLE 13.15: A Shave and a Haircut
      • ISLE 13.16: Cross Modal Matching as a Simulation of Synesthesia
      • ISLE 13.17: Indian Raga Music Example
      • ISLE 13.18: Bach Violin Partita #2
      • ISLE 13.19: Shepard Tones
      • ISLE 13.20: Octave Illusion
      • ISLE 13.21: Scale Illusion
      • ISLE 13.22: Tritone Paradox
    • eFlashcards
    • Video and Multimedia
    • SAGE Journal Articles
  14. Touch and Pain
    • Learning Objectives
    • Sample ISLE Activities
    • ISLE Quizzing
      • ISLE 14.1: Action of Mechanoreceptors
      • ISLE 14.2: Mechanoreceptors and Aristotle’s Illusion
      • ISLE 14.3: Heat Grille
      • ISLE 14.4: Somatosensory Pathways
      • ISLE 14.5: Melzack and Wall’s Gate Control Theory
      • ISLE 14.6: Professor Ramachandran and Phantom Limb Syndrome
      • ISLE 14.7: Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain
    • eFlashcards
    • Video and Multimedia
    • SAGE Journal Articles
  15. Olfaction and Taste
    • Learning Objectives
    • Sample ISLE Activities
    • ISLE Quizzing
      • ISLE 15.1: Brain Area for Olfactory Bulbs
      • ISLE 15.2: The Posterior Piriform Cortex
    • eFlashcards
    • Video and Multimedia
    • SAGE Journal Articles

Video and Multimedia

Click on the following links. Please note these will open in a new window.

Audio

  • This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain on Music
  • Born to Be Tone Deaf?
  • Think Before You Clap: You Could Be Beat Deaf

Video

  • Ani Patel Talks about Musical Training and the Brain
  • Charles Limb: Your Brain on Improv
  • Daniel Levitin: Music and the Brain
  • What Color Is Tuesday? Exploring Synesthesia – Richard E. Cytowic

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