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Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception

Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception
24xDVDRip | AVI / DivX, ~1499 kb/s | 640×480 | Duration: 12:19:37 | English: MP3, 128 kb/s (2 ch) | + PDF Guide | 8.47 GB Genre: Psychology and Behavior
And in recent years, neurobiologists and other scientists have uncovered new insights into how your senses work and all the amazingly complex and fascinating things they can do, whether you’re aware of them or not. Knowing how your senses work and the ways they shape how you see, interact with, and understand your life will help you think more critically about everything you sense and perceive, strengthen your appreciation for the everyday marvels of your senses, prepare you to be active consumers of new scientific evidence on how our senses work, and much more.

consider each of your senses from a wide range of perspectives,
explore how your brain processes different sensory information,

consider how your senses work together and within the real-world context of the environment around you, and
discover how your senses connect you to the world and to other people.

Discover Why

There’s More to Your Senses than You Ever Imagined
“Perception feels so easy and functions so automatically that many people assume there must not be much to it,” notes Professor Vishton at the start of this course. “Let me assure you that there is.” And while this subject is one of great scientific depth,

it is made accessible and approachable by Professor Vishton’s engaging teaching style and his ability to organize the broad range of information out there into several core areas.
Hardware of Sensation and Perception: Key to understanding how perception works is knowing details about the biological “hardware” itself.

Professor Vishton

gives you a thorough tour of information about your eyes, tongue, ears, skin, and other sensory organs;

the neurons that connect with them; and the brain systems that make sense of your surroundings.

Visual Perception: Because the vast majority of perception research has been conducted on the sense of vision and because humans are extensively visual creatures, you spend time on fundamental topics in the domain of visual perception.

These topics include how you perceive motion, depth, and color.

Perceptual Systems

and Development: You’ll also consider how your perceptual systems develop throughout your life, from infancy to adulthood. Among the subjects you learn about are action control, perception and attention, subliminal perception, and perceptual learning.

Professor Vishton offers you an expert’s look at our latest knowledge about taste and olfaction,

hearing, speech and language perception, touch, kinesthetic perception, and even the perception of pain.