How do our human senses work and help us interact with our surroundings, and what happens when these senses malfunction or are impaired? This book provides in-depth information that answers these questions and more. The Five Senses and Beyond: The Encyclopedia of Perception supplies students and general readers with accurate, up-to-date information about the human senses. It explains the "big five" senses in detail as well as lesser-known but important senses-perceptions such as balance, kinesthesia, temperature, and pain. After a helpful introduction, this reference work provides A-to-Z,…mehr
How do our human senses work and help us interact with our surroundings, and what happens when these senses malfunction or are impaired? This book provides in-depth information that answers these questions and more. The Five Senses and Beyond: The Encyclopedia of Perception supplies students and general readers with accurate, up-to-date information about the human senses. It explains the "big five" senses in detail as well as lesser-known but important senses-perceptions such as balance, kinesthesia, temperature, and pain. After a helpful introduction, this reference work provides A-to-Z, cross-referenced entries on hundreds of topics in the realm of human perception that allow students to find and digest information quickly and draw connections between related topics. Through the use of activity sidebars, readers will also be able to explore the workings of the senses firsthand, lending an element of interactivity to this accessible encyclopedia. A convenient end-of-volume glossary provides definitions of unfamiliar terms.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jennifer L. Hellier, PhD, is assistant professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Cell & Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO.
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Preface Acknowledgments Introduction The Encyclopedia Accommodation Action Potential Adrenaline Afferent Tracts Age-Related Hearing Loss Ageusia Agnosia Amblyopia American Sign Language Americans with Disabilities Act Amygdala Anesthesia Anophthalmia Anosmia Assistive Technology Association for Chemoreception Sciences Astigmatism Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Auditory Hallucinations Auditory Processing Disorder Auditory System Auditory-Tactile Synesthesia Auditory Threshold Aura Autonomic Nervous System Axel, Richard Axon Balance Baroreceptors Bartoshuk, Linda Bell's Palsy Bietti's Crystalline Dystrophy Bitter Sensation Blind Spot Blindness Blink Reflex Bowman's Glands Braille Brain Anatomy Brainstem Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials Brodmann Areas Buck, Linda Burning Mouth Syndrome Carotid Body Cataracts Central Nervous System Cerebral Cortex Chemoreception Chorda Tympani Nerve Chromesthesia Chronoception Circadian Rhythm Circumvallate Papillae Cochlea Cochlear Implants Color Blindness Color Perception Cone Dystrophy Cones Congenital Insensitivity to Pain Consensual Pupillary Light Reflex Cranial Nerves Deafness Desensitization Diplopia Discriminative Touch Dizziness Doppler Effect Dysgeusia Dysosmia Ear Protection Emesis Entorhinal Cortex Excitation Exteroception Eye Protection Facial Nerve Fainting Familial Dysautonomia Fovea Centralis Free Nerve Endings Fungiform Papillae Ganglia Glossopharyngeal Nerve Golgi Tendon Organs G Proteins Grapheme-Color Synesthesia Heightened Senses Holmes-Adie Syndrome Homunculus Horner Syndrome Hubel, David H. Hunger Hypergeusia Hyperopia Hypogeusia Inferior Colliculus Inferior Salivatory Nucleus Inhibition Interoception Interrelatedness of Taste and Smell Keller, Helen Klüver-Bucy Syndrome Lexical-Gustatory Synesthesia Limbic System Mechanoreceptors Meissner's Corpuscles Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome Membrane Potential: Depolarization and Hyperpolarization Meniere's Disease Merkel Cell Microphthalmia Mirror-Touch Synesthesia Misophonia Mobius Syndrome Mosquito Machine Motion Sickness Myasthenia Gravis Myopia National Organization for Rare Disorders Nausea Nerves Neurological Examination Neurologist Neuropil Nociception Nociceptors Noradrenaline Nystagmus Occipital Lobe Ocular Dominance Columns Odor Intensity Scale Odor Threshold Olfactory Bulb Olfactory Mucosa Olfactory Nerve Olfactory Reference Syndrome Olfactory Sensory Neurons Olfactory System Optic Nerve Optic Nerve Hypoplasia Orthostatic Hypotension Otoacoustic Emissions Otoliths Pacinian Corpuscles Paresthesia Parietal Lobe Perception Peripheral Nervous System Peripheral Neuropathy Phantom Pain Phantosmia Pheromones Pregnancy and Sense of Smell Presbyopia Primary Odors Proprioception Proprioception Deficit Disorders Ptosis Ramón y Cajal, Santiago Reflex Restless Legs Syndrome Retina Retinopathy Rods Saccades Saccule Sacks, Oliver Wolf Salty Sensation Satiety Seizures Semicircular Canals Senses of Animals Sensory Deprivation Sensory Receptors Society for Neuroscience Somatosensory Cortex Somatosensory System Sound Localization Sour Sensation Spatial Sequence Synesthesia Stereocilia Stereopsis Strabismus Sullivan, Anne Superior Colliculus Superior Salivatory Nucleus Supertaster Sweet Sensation Synesthesia Taste Aversion Taste Bud Taste System Thalamus Thermal Sense Thermoreceptors Thirst 3D Movies and Technology Tinnitus Tonotopic Map Touch Trigeminal Nerve Tunnel Vision Type I Taste Cells Type II Taste Cells Type III Taste Cells Umami Utricle Vagus Nerve Vestibular System Vestibulocochlear Nerve Vibration Sensation Visceral Sensation Visual Fields Visual Motor System Visual Perception Visual System Visual Threshold Vomeronasal Organ Wiesel, Torsten N. Appendix Glossary Index About the Editor and Contributors
