Foundations of Sensation and Perception

This 4th edition shows again how well George Mather is on top of new developments, linking it with a critical eye to the important work of the past. This version will secure that Foundations of Sensation and Perception keeps the status as one of the best introductions to the field of perception, for starting as well as advanced students of Perception. It also has lots to tell to a wider audience, in particular to those that work in applied domains where the senses play an important, if not decisive, role. -- Frans Verstraten, the University of Sydney, Australia Mather's Foundations of Sensation and Perception has always delivered high quality support for any budding student of vision, hearing, balance, touch, taste and smell. This new edition brings the subject matter bang up to date, blending traditional approaches with tutorials on each chapter, top and tailed with abstracts and summaries. Delivered with commanding ease, essential details and comparisons of investigative tools, theories and experiments inform and enrich the student's journey of discovery into the bewildering complexities of what it is to be a sensory being. My bookshelf will not be without this new edition. -- Timothy S. Meese, College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, UK This new edition is an excellent choice for introductory as well as advanced courses and has the breadth and depth to serve as a basic reference for all. The additions covering neural network approaches, body senses and vision make this a timely, comprehensive, and well-structured text. The book takes us through the mechanisms of sensation and perception and shows how they offer immediate and tangible access to the workings of the brain. -- Patrick Cavanagh, Emeritus Professor, Harvard University, USA, and Universite Paris Cite, France. Senior Research Fellow, York University, Canada