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  • Chapter 1 - What do the processes of sensation and perception entail?
  • Chapter 2 - How can our eyes perceive light?
  • Chapter 3 - How do people perceive spatial figures?
  • Chapter 4 - How does object recognition work?
  • Chapter 5 - How do we observe color?
  • Chapter 6 - How does the perception of space and binocular vision work?
  • Chapter 7 - How does attention and the perception of a scene work?
  • Chapter 8 - How does the perception of movement work?
  • Chapter 9 - What is sound and how do we perceive it?
  • Chapter 10 - How do we locate sound?
  • Chapter 11 - How do we perceive music and speech?
  • Chapter 12 - What does vestibular sensation entail?
  • Chapter 13 - How do we perceive touch?
  • Chapter 14 - How does taste perception work?
  • Chapter 15 - What is olfaction and how does it work?
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  • Authors: Wolfe, Kluender, Herz, Bartoshuk, Levi
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