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Multisensory Object Perception in the Primate Brain
. Ed(S): Kaiser, Jochen; Naumer, Marcus Johannes
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Description for Multisensory Object Perception in the Primate Brain
Hardback. This book explores mechanisms of multisensory integration of object-related information, focused on visual, auditory, and tactile sensory modalities. Covers audio-visual and visuo-tactile processing, and plasticity, offering human and nonhuman primate studies. Editor(s): Kaiser, Jochen; Naumer, Marcus Johannes. Num Pages: 383 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMR; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 838.
It should come as no surprise to those interested in sensory processes that its research history is among the longest and richest of the many systematic efforts to understand how our bodies function. The continuing obsession with sensory systems is as much a re?ection of the fundamental need to understand how we experience the physical world as it is to understand how we become who we are based on those very experiences. The senses function as both portal and teacher, and their individual and collective properties have fascinated scientists and philosophers for millennia. In this context, the attention directed toward ... Read more
It should come as no surprise to those interested in sensory processes that its research history is among the longest and richest of the many systematic efforts to understand how our bodies function. The continuing obsession with sensory systems is as much a re?ection of the fundamental need to understand how we experience the physical world as it is to understand how we become who we are based on those very experiences. The senses function as both portal and teacher, and their individual and collective properties have fascinated scientists and philosophers for millennia. In this context, the attention directed toward ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
383
Condition
New
Number of Pages
383
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781441956149
SKU
V9781441956149
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Reviews for Multisensory Object Perception in the Primate Brain
From the book reviews: “This is an excellent study of auditory and visual processing in synchrony or at least close to ideal concurrent operations in the cerebral cortex of the monkey and human brains. … Anyone who does research in auditory, visual, decision making processes, speech, and vocalization will benefit greatly from this marvelous book. Neurophysiologists and primatologists should ... Read more