Our senses
Subtitle: an immersive experience
By: Rob DeSalle ; illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne
Contributors: Wynne, Patricia, illustrator
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780300230192
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Brain; Evolution; Perception; Neuropsychology; Senses and sensation; Human evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The brainless majority : sensing the environment in organisms without brains; title: 2. Brains and prains : brains (or not) in animals from sponges to us; title: 3. The monkey's unculus : tactile and balance sensory capacity in animals; title: 4. A matter of taste (and odorant) receptors : smell and taste reception in animals; title: 5. All ears (and eyes) : animal hearing and sight; title: 6. Supersmellers and supertasters : the limits of smell and taste in humans; title: 7. Where am I? : the limits of hearing and balance in humans; title: 8. Touchy feely : touch and how it is linked to other senses; title: 9. The eyes have it : the limits of sight in humans; title: 10. Accidents will happen : traumatic brain injury and the impact on our senses; title: 11. Modern life, strokes, and the senses : the impact of strokes and other brain damage on sensory capacity; title: 12. Full/half/split brains : people with unique brains; title: 13. Team of rivals meets the kluge : making sense out of crossmodal stimuli from the outer world; title: 14. Neural detritus : making sense out of a noisy environment; title: 15. Pani ca' meusa, crème brûlée, and synesthesia : crossmodal impact on taste and synesthesia; title: 16. Connectomes : how crossmodal interactions work in the brain; title: 17. Faces and hallucinations : facial recognition and hallucinations as subjects in higher perception; title: 18. Bob Dylan's Nobel : language, literacy, and how the senses interact to produce literature; title: 19. Facing the music : the neurobiology of music and art; title: 20. No limits : the limits to what we can sense and the future of our senses.