Key Notes expand on material in the textbook, and further illustrate key concepts. You may be encouraged to perform a calculation and/or plot a graph, to understand better how, for example, different sources of visual information change their importance in different situations.
Chapter 1 The nature of perception, and some ways of investigating it
Chapter 2 Research methods in perception
Chapter 3 Mechanisms of early and middle visual processing
Chapter 4 Seeing in colour
Chapter 5 Seeing pattern and motion
Chapter 7 Taste and Smell
Chapter 9 Vestibular and proprioceptive systems
Chapter 10 Visual and auditory localisation
Chapter 11 Eye movements and perception of natural scenes
Chapter 12 Recognising faces
Chapter 13 Perceiving emotions and attractiveness
Chapter 14 Attention and awareness
Chapter 15 Changes in perception through the life-span
Chapter 16 Pathologies of perception