Table Of ContentUPDATED, ENHANCED, and packaged with
each new text— with more than 75 new
media exercises to help students
learn interactively!
Virtual Lab CD-ROM
By Bruce Goldstein, Colin Ryan, and John Baro
The Virtual Lab CD-ROM includes more than 200
demonstrations and activities that help students become more
engaged with sensation and perception topics, comprehend
concepts through interactive exercises, and get the most out
of the course:
(cid:129) Media Interactions
include drag-and-drop
animations, experiments,
and interactive exercises
that illustrate principles
in this book, as well as
auditory demonstrations.
(cid:129) Media Experiments and Demonstrations are designed
so students can practice gathering data, varying many
parameters to determine how changes to parameters
affect perception, and
analyzing the results.
The more than 75 new
Thomas V. PapaThomas, Rolling Eyes on a Hollow Mask additions include work
by researchers from
around the globe, and
feature many new
illusions (visual and
auditory), eye movement
records, hearing loss
demonstrations,
and more.
Ted Adelson, White’s Illusion
Michael Bach, Dalmation Hidden Figure
Completely integrated with the text
Throughout the text, a Virtual Lab icon directs students
to specifi c animations and videos designed to help them
visualize the material about which they are reading. The
number beside each icon indicates the number of the
relevant media element. At the end of each chapter, the
titles of related Virtual Lab exercises are listed.
Accessible in three convenient ways!
Virtual Labs can be accessed via the 1.
CD-ROM that is packaged with each new
text, through CengageNOW™ for Sensation
and Perception, Eighth Edition, and through
WebTutor™ on WebCT® or Blackboard®. 2.
Instructors: Contact your local Cengage Learning
representative to help create the package that’s just
right for you and your students.
3.
Virtual Lab
Manual
Accompanied by the Virtual Lab Manual
The streamlined Virtual Lab Manual (available digitally on the CD-ROM and in a
printed version) includes worksheets for the Virtual Lab experiments to encourage
students to take a closer look at the labs and engage in analysis of the results.
Instructors—If you would like the printed version of the Virtual Lab Manual to be
packaged with each new text, please use these ISBNs when placing your textbook order:
E. BRUCE GOLDSTEIN ISBN-10: 0-495-76050-1 (cid:129) ISBN-13: 978-0-495-76050-4.
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Eighth Edition
Sensation
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E. Bruce Goldstein
University of Pittsburgh
University of Arizona
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To my wife, Barbara, more than ever
and
To all of the students and teachers whose suggestions
helped shape this edition
About the Author
E. Bruce Goldstein is Professor Emeritus of Psy-
chology at the University of Pittsburgh and Ad-
junct Professor of Psychology at the University of
Arizona. He has received the Chancellor’s Distin-
guished Teaching Award from the University of
Pittsburgh for his classroom teaching and text-
book 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 Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh. Bruce has published papers on a wide vari-
ety of topics, including retinal and cortical physiology, visual
attention, and the perception of pictures. He is the author of
Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research, and Everyday Ex-
perience, 2nd Edition (Wadsworth, 2008), and the editor of the
Blackwell Handbook of Perception (Blackwell, 2001) and the forth-
coming two-volume Sage Encyclopedia of Perception (Sage, 2010).
Brief Contents
1 Introduction to Perception 3 12 Sound Localization and the
Auditory Scene 291
2 Introduction to the Physiology of
Perception 23 13 S peech Perception 311
3 Introduction to Vision 43 14 The Cutaneous Senses 329
4 The Visual Cortex and Beyond 73 15 The Chemical Senses 355
5 Perceiving Objects and Scenes 99 16 P erceptual Development 379
6 V isual Attention 133 Appendix
Signal Detection Theory 401
7 T aking Action 155
Glossary 407
8 P erceiving Motion 177
References 425
9 P erceiving Color 201
Name Index 443
10 Perceiving Depth and Size 229 Subject Index 449
11 Sound, the Auditory System, and
Pitch Perception 259
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