Our senses : an immersive experience /
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| Author / Creator: | DeSalle, Rob, author. |
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| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] ©2018 |
| Description: | xiii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11464118 |
Table of 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
