Perception Books

New and Published Books

1. Face Perception

   By Vicki Bruce, Andy Young

   Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important social messages. Even strangers can tell things from our faces – our feelings, our locus of attention, something of what we are saying, our age, sex and ethnic group, whether they find us attractive. In...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Psychology Press
2. Measurement With Persons

   Theory, Methods, and Implementation Areas

   Edited by Birgitta Berglund, Giovanni B. Rossi, James T. Townsend, Leslie R. Pendrill

   Series: Scientific Psychology Series

   Measurements with persons are those in which human perception and interpretation are used for measuring complex, holistic quantities and qualities, which are perceived by the human brain and mind. Providing means for reproducible measurement of parameters such as pleasure and pain has important...

   Published December 18th 2011 by Psychology Press
3. Phenomenology of Perception

   By Maurice Merleau-Ponty

   First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s monumental Phénoménologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture of existentialism and phenomenology at the time, it has become one of the...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
4. Studies in Perception and Action XI

   Sixteenth International Conference on Perception and Action

   Edited by Eric P. Charles, L. James Smart

   This volume is the 11th in the Studies in Perception and Action series and contains research presented at the 16th International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA) meeting in the summer of 2011. ICPA provides a forum for presenting new data, theory, and methodological developments relevant...

   Published August 8th 2011 by Psychology Press
5. Essentials of Sensation and Perception

   By George Mather

   Series: Foundations of Psychology

   The study of sensation and perception looks at how we acquire, process, and interpret information about the outside world. By describing key ideas from first principles, this straightforward introduction provides easy access to the basic concepts in the subject, and incorporates the most recent...

   Published May 3rd 2011 by Routledge
6. Tutorials in Visual Cognition

   Edited by Veronika Coltheart

   Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

   In the late-1980s, visual cognition was a small subfield of cognitive psychology, and the standard texts mainly discussed just iconic memory in their sections on visual cognition. In the subsequent two decades, and especially very recently, many remarkable new aspects of the processing of...

   Published January 26th 2010 by Psychology Press
7. Studies in Perception and Action X

   Fifteenth International Conference on Perception and Action

   Edited by Jeffrey B. Wagman, Christopher C. Pagano

   Series: Studies in Perception and Action

   This volume is the 10th in the Studies in Perception and Action series and contains research presented at the 15th International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA) meeting in the summer of 2009. ICPA provides a forum for presenting new data, theory, and methodological developments relevant...

   Published June 25th 2009 by Psychology Press
8. Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System

   A Psychophysical and Physiological Analysis

   By George A. Gescheider, John H. Wright, Ronald T. Verrillo

   Series: Scientific Psychology Series

   Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System addresses the fundamental question of whether sensory channels, similar to those known to operate in vision and audition, also operate in the sense of touch. Based on the results of psychophysical and neurophysiological experimentation...

   Published December 16th 2008 by Psychology Press
9. Foundations of Sensation and Perception

   Second Edition

   By George Mather

   This comprehensive introduction to Sensation and Perception has been highly praised for its unique approach, which begins with the minor senses and progresses to vision. The book begins with an introductory chapter on general physiological, perceptual and theoretical principles which...

   Published December 7th 2008 by Psychology Press
10. Integrative Approaches to Perception and Action

    A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

    Edited by Nicola Bruno, P. Paolo Battaglini

    Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychology

    The special issue aims at providing a forum for empirical and theoretical research on the integration of perceptual and motor processes in the human mind. Integrative approaches to perception and action have proved fruitful in several areas, including large-scale questions pertaining to the...

    Published December 3rd 2008 by Psychology Press