Key Notes

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 7 Taste and Smell

Chapter 8 Touch and pain

Chapter 9 Vestibular and proprioceptive systems

Chapter 10 Visual and auditory localisation

Chapter 11 Eye movements and perception of natural scenes

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