Sensory Processes

Informationen zum Autor David R. Soderquist is Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Vanderbilt University in 1968. His primary research interest is in psychoacoustics, and he has published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , the Journal of Auditory Research , Perception and Psychophysics , Acoustical Letters , the Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society , Educational and Psychological Measurement , Human Factors , and elsewhere. He has taught courses on sensory processes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and has class-tested early drafts of this book with his students. Klappentext This core text emphasizes the underlying neural structures and functions of sensory systems (pain, olfaction, gustation, audition, vision, etc.) and presents this complex material at a level comprehensible to undergraduates as well as beginning graduate students. The text begins with a review of the central nervous system and its sensory components and includes discussions of methodological techniques and procedures used to study sensory processes. Zusammenfassung Emphasizes the underlying neural structures and functions of sensory systems (pain! olfaction! gustation! audition! vision! etc). This book begins with a review of the central nervous system and its sensory components! and includes discussions of methodological techniques and procedures used to study sensory processes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction to the Nervous System The Nervous System Dysfunctions 2. Synapses and Receptors A Brief Review Potential Sensitivity Calcium Influx Neurotransmitter Release Postsynaptic Potentials Chemical Sensitivity Neurotransmitters Introduction to Receptors Receptor Transduction Dysfunctions Summary Suggested Readings 3. Somatosensory System Overview of the Chapter Somatosensory Paths Revisited Receptors and Fibers Proprioception and Kinesthesis Receptive Fields The Thalamus The Somatosensory Cortex Dysfunctions Summary Suggested Readings 4. Pain Pain: One Definition Classic Paths The Gate Control Theory of Pain Pain and Drugs Summary Suggested Readings 5. Olfaction The peripheral Olfactory System Olfactory Transduction The Olfactory Bulb Central Olfactory Structures Olfactory Perception How Many Odors Are there? Dysfunctions Suggested Readings 6. Gustation Peripheral Processes Central Processes Taste Perception The Hedonics Dysfunctions Summary Suggested Readings 7. The Vestibular System Introduction Vestibular Periphery Vestibular Central Pathways Dysfunctions Summary Suggested Readings 8. Auditory Stimuli Introduction Summary Suggested Readings 9. Audition External and Middle Ear The Inner Ear Auditory Pathways The Auditory Cortex Dysfunctions Summary Suggested Readings 10. Vision The Visual Stimulus The Structure of the Eye The Retina Central Pathways The Thalamus and Other Neutral Centers The Visual Cortex Dysfunctions Summary Suggested Readings Glossary References Index About the Author ...

Autorentext
David R. Soderquist is Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Vanderbilt University in 1968. His primary research interest is in psychoacoustics, and he has published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, the Journal of Auditory Research, Perception and Psychophysics, Acoustical Letters, the Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, Educational and Psychological Measurement, Human Factors, and elsewhere. He has taught courses on sensory processes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and has class-tested early drafts of this book with his students.

Klappentext
This core text emphasizes the underlying neural structures and functions of sensory systems (pain, olfaction, gustation, audition, vision, etc.) and presents this complex material at a level comprehensible to undergraduates as well as beginning graduate students. The text begins with a review of the central nervous system and its sensory components and includes discussions of methodological techniques and procedures used to study sensory processes.

Inhalt
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction to the Nervous System
The Nervous System
Dysfunctions
2. Synapses and Receptors
A Brief Review
Potential Sensitivity
Calcium Influx
Neurotransmitter Release
Postsynaptic Potentials
Chemical Sensitivity
Neurotransmitters
Introduction to Receptors
Receptor Transduction
Dysfunctions
Summary
Suggested Readings
3. Somatosensory System
Overview of the Chapter
Somatosensory Paths Revisited
Receptors and Fibers
Proprioception and Kinesthesis
Receptive Fields
The Thalamus
The Somatosensory Cortex
Dysfunctions
Summary
Suggested Readings
4. Pain
Pain: One Definition
Classic Paths
The Gate Control Theory of Pain
Pain and Drugs
Summary
Suggested Readings
5. Olfaction
The peripheral Olfactory System
Olfactory Transduction
The Olfactory Bulb
Central Olfactory Structures
Olfactory Perception
How Many Odors Are there?
Dysfunctions
Suggested Readings
6. Gustation
Peripheral Processes
Central Processes
Taste Perception
The Hedonics
Dysfunctions
Summary
Suggested Readings
7. The Vestibular System
Introduction
Vestibular Periphery
Vestibular Central Pathways
Dysfunctions
Summary
Suggested Readings
8. Auditory Stimuli
Introduction
Summary
Suggested Readings
9. Audition
External and Middle Ear
The Inner Ear
Auditory Pathways
The Auditory Cortex
Dysfunctions
Summary
Suggested Readings
10. Vision
The Visual Stimulus
The Structure of the Eye
The Retina
Central Pathways
The Thalamus and Other Neutral Centers
The Visual Cortex
Dysfunctions
Summary
Suggested Readings
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author

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