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Workshops in Perception
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Originally published in 1981, Workshops in Perception is designed to enable students to devise their own experiments in sensory processes or perception. The thirty workshops include over a hundred different possible student projects covering the full range of the senses and interactions among them. The topics range from simple perimetry to the perception of language and social situations. In addition to more traditional topics such as illusions, adaptation and after-effects, they include lifespan perceptual development, musical illusions, and even a consumer-oriented study of road atlases. Each of the ten major sections has a general introduction to the topic with suggestions for reading. Each workshop has a more specific introduction to its topic, and an experiment outlined. A typical outline will suggest more independent variables than a student can handle, and it is up to the student to select the variables he considers important and to choose the appropriate levels of the variables. Although many suggestions are made regarding the actual running of each workshop, deciding precisely how to carry out the experiment is left up to the student. Pilot work and consultation with the tutor is encouraged. Suggestions for the form of the analysis are made, but again the details are left to the student. Several alternatives to the main workshop are outlined briefly, and these are suited to the more adventurous or advanced student. Thus the book is suited to students with a wide range of ability.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |2 pages
Introduction to workshops
part |2 pages
Seeing
chapter 1|5 pages
Peripheral colour vision
chapter 2|6 pages
The Pulfrich stereophenomenon
chapter 3|4 pages
Searching for names on maps
part |2 pages
Hearing
chapter 4|6 pages
Musical illusions
chapter 5|5 pages
The verbal transformation effect
chapter 6|5 pages
Human echo perception
part |2 pages
Tasting and smelling
chapter 7|5 pages
Human olfactory communication
chapter 8|5 pages
Odour-taste interactions
chapter 9|5 pages
Tastes of sub-adapting concentrations
part |2 pages
Skin and body senses
chapter 10|6 pages
The effect of feedback on the two-point touch threshold
chapter 11|4 pages
Touch after-effects contingent on orientation
chapter 12|4 pages
Bodily perception of the vertical
part |3 pages
Interacting modalities
chapter 13|6 pages
Visual dominance
chapter 14|4 pages
The size-weight illusion
chapter 15|5 pages
The role of vision in auditory localisation
part |4 pages
Constancy and illusion
chapter 16|6 pages
The horizontal-vertical illusion in the great outdoors
chapter 17|6 pages
The microgenesis of illusions
chapter 18|5 pages
Constancy and illusory judgments of motion
part |3 pages
Adaptation and after-effects
chapter 19|6 pages
The McCollough effect
chapter 20|6 pages
Motion after-effects and interocular transfer
chapter 21|5 pages
Visual after-images
part |3 pages
Perceptual development
chapter 22|5 pages
The visual cliff
chapter 23|5 pages
Auditory-visual coordination in neonates
chapter 24|5 pages
Lifespan development of perception
part |3 pages
Perception of language
chapter 25|4 pages
Perceptual span in reading
chapter 26|4 pages
Listening to compressed speech
chapter 27|7 pages
Speechreading
part |3 pages
Social perception