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Our Senses : An Immersive Experience / / Rob DeSalle
| Our Senses : An Immersive Experience / / Rob DeSalle |
| Autore | DeSalle Rob |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 612.8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | WynnePatricia J |
| Soggetto topico |
Senses and sensation
Perception Brain - Evolution |
| ISBN | 0-300-23164-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. The Brainless Majority: Sensing the Environment in Organisms without Brains -- 2. Brains and Prains: Brains (or Not) in Animals from Sponges to Us -- 3. The Monkey's Unculus: Tactile and Balance Sensory Capacity in Animals -- 4. A Matter of Taste (and Odorant) Receptors: Smell and Taste Reception in Animals -- 5. All Ears (and Eyes): Animal Hearing and Sight -- 6. Supersmellers and Supertasters: The Limits of Smell and Taste in Humans -- 7. Where Am I? The Limits of Hearing and Balance in Humans -- 8. Touchy Feely: Touch and How It Is Linked to Other Senses -- 9. The Eyes Have It: The Limits of Sight in Humans -- 10. Accidents Will Happen: Traumatic Brain Injury and the Impact on Our Senses -- 11. Modern Life, Strokes, and the Senses: The Impact of Strokes and Other Brain Damage on Sensory Capacity -- 12. Full/Half/Split Brains: People with Unique Brains -- 13. Team of Rivals Meets the Kluge: Making Sense Out of Crossmodal Stimuli from the Outer World -- 14. Neural Detritus: Making Sense Out of a Noisy Environment -- 15. Pani ca' Meusa, Crème Brûlée, and Synesthesia: Crossmodal Impact on Taste and Synesthesia -- 16. Connectomes: How Crossmodal Interactions Work in the Brain -- 17. Faces and Hallucinations: Facial Recognition and Hallucinations as Subjects in Higher Perception -- 18. Bob Dylan's Nobel: Language, Literacy, and How the Senses Interact to Produce Literature -- 19. Facing the Music: The Neurobiology of Music and Art -- 20. No Limits: The Limits to What We Can Sense and the Future of Our Senses -- Literature and Further Reading -- INDEX |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796360303321 |
DeSalle Rob
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| New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2018] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Our Senses : An Immersive Experience / / Rob DeSalle
| Our Senses : An Immersive Experience / / Rob DeSalle |
| Autore | DeSalle Rob |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 612.8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | WynnePatricia J |
| Soggetto topico |
Senses and sensation
Perception Brain - Evolution |
| ISBN | 0-300-23164-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. The Brainless Majority: Sensing the Environment in Organisms without Brains -- 2. Brains and Prains: Brains (or Not) in Animals from Sponges to Us -- 3. The Monkey's Unculus: Tactile and Balance Sensory Capacity in Animals -- 4. A Matter of Taste (and Odorant) Receptors: Smell and Taste Reception in Animals -- 5. All Ears (and Eyes): Animal Hearing and Sight -- 6. Supersmellers and Supertasters: The Limits of Smell and Taste in Humans -- 7. Where Am I? The Limits of Hearing and Balance in Humans -- 8. Touchy Feely: Touch and How It Is Linked to Other Senses -- 9. The Eyes Have It: The Limits of Sight in Humans -- 10. Accidents Will Happen: Traumatic Brain Injury and the Impact on Our Senses -- 11. Modern Life, Strokes, and the Senses: The Impact of Strokes and Other Brain Damage on Sensory Capacity -- 12. Full/Half/Split Brains: People with Unique Brains -- 13. Team of Rivals Meets the Kluge: Making Sense Out of Crossmodal Stimuli from the Outer World -- 14. Neural Detritus: Making Sense Out of a Noisy Environment -- 15. Pani ca' Meusa, Crème Brûlée, and Synesthesia: Crossmodal Impact on Taste and Synesthesia -- 16. Connectomes: How Crossmodal Interactions Work in the Brain -- 17. Faces and Hallucinations: Facial Recognition and Hallucinations as Subjects in Higher Perception -- 18. Bob Dylan's Nobel: Language, Literacy, and How the Senses Interact to Produce Literature -- 19. Facing the Music: The Neurobiology of Music and Art -- 20. No Limits: The Limits to What We Can Sense and the Future of Our Senses -- Literature and Further Reading -- INDEX |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813517303321 |
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DeSalle Rob
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| New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2018] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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