Sensation and Perception: Edition 3

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Sensation and Perception is a cutting edge and highly readable account of modern sensation and perception from both a cognitive and neurocognitive perspective. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, authors Bennett L. Schwartz and John H. Krantz offer readers the most relevant topics in the field of sensation and perception. Rich in examples and applications to everyday life, the text includes an emphasis on areas of interest to students, namely, music, clinical applications, neuropsychology, and interesting animal perception systems. Updates to the Third Edition include revised chapters throughout, new science, and interactive video links.

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About the author

Bennett L. Schwartz received his PhD in 1993 from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Sincethen he has been at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida, where he is currently professorof psychology. He is author or editor of 10 published books as well as over 70 journal articles andchapters. His textbook Memory: Foundations and Applications, fourth edition (SAGE), was published in2020. He has won several teaching awards at FIU and currently teaches courses in memory, cognition,and sensation and perception. His main research area is metacognition and memory, but he has alsoconducted research in diverse areas that range from visual perception to evolutionary psychology, tothe language of thought, and to memory in nonhuman primates. Schwartz currently serves as the editorin chief of New Ideas in Psychology.

John H. Krantz received his psychology PhD from the University of Florida. After graduate school, heworked in industry at Honeywell on visual factors related to cockpit displays. In 1990, he returned toacademia, taking a position at Hanover College. John has done extensive research in vision, human factors,computers in psychology, and the use of the Web as a medium for psychological research. He hasbeen program chair and president of the Society for Computers in Psychology and editor of the journalBehavior Research Methods. John was the first to develop Web experiments in psychological science andled the way on techniques for sending multimedia via the Web. He has served as a faculty associate forThe Psychology Place, developing interactive learning activities, and created psychology’s first globalwebsite for the Association for Psychological Science (APS). In addition, he is an author for both theCognitive Toolkit and PsychSim 6. John is well known for his widely used online psychological experimentsrelated to sensation, perception, and cognition. His current research is focused on using the Webfor psychological research and modeling the visual system.

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