Sensation and Perception.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Stanley Coren

Psychology & Counseling

Academic Press Inc.,U.S.

This text provides an introduction to the study of basic physiology and sensory response through the findings of Coren, Ward and Enns. New coverage in the fourth edition includes chapters on visual physiology, attention and form perception.

Sensation and Perception

International Thomson Publishing

Book by Coren, Stanley, Ward, Lawrence M., Enns, James T.

Sensation & Perception

Lawrence M. Ward

James T. Enns

Medical Books

Harcourt College Pub.

This text provides an introduction to the study of basic physiology and sensory response through the findings of Coren, Ward and Enns. New coverage in the fourth edition includes chapters on visual physiology, attention and form perception.

Now updated and revised with more than 600 new research citations, new chapters, and effective new pedagogy, Sensation and Perception, Sixth Edition provides broad, theoretically balanced coverage, along with late-breaking discoveries and new thinking on how we see, hear, taste, smell, touch, and make sense of our world. Featuring do-it-yourself demonstrations of actual perceptual phenomena, Coren, Ward, and Enns's interactive approach to sensation and perception enables you to use your own senses to understand this fascinating and dynamic field. Book jacket.

Clare Polac

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

Lateral preferences are strange, puzzling, and on the surface, not particularly adaptive aspects of behavior. Why one chooses habitually to write or to brush the teeth with the right hand, while a friend or family member habitually uses the left hand, might be interesting enough to elicit some conversation over dinner or a drink, but certainly does not seem to warrant serious scientific study. Yet when one looks at human behaviors more carefully, one becomes aware that asymmet rical behaviors favoring one side or the other are actually a fairly universal characteristic of human beings. In the same way that we are right or left handed, we are also right or left footed, eyed, and eared. As a species, we are quite lopsided in our behavioral coordinations; furthermore, the vast majority of us are right sided. Considering that we are looking at a sizable number of behaviors, and at a set of biases that seem to be systematic and show a predictable skew in the popUlation, the problem takes on greater significance. The most obvious form of lateral preference is, of course, handedness. When studying behavioral asymmetries, this is the issue with which most investigators start. Actually, we entered this research area through a much different route. Around 1971 we became interested in the problem of eye dominance or eye preference. This is a behavior where the input to one eye seems to be preferred over that to the other in certain binocular viewing situations.

Lateral Preferences and Human Behavior

Clare Porac

Springer

Do Dogs Dream?: Nearly Everything Your Dog Wants You to Know

W.W.Norton&Company

John Wiley&Sons

At various times in history, left-handedness has been regarded as many a nasty habit, a social inconvenience, or a mark of the devil. It has also been taken as a sign of neurosis, rebellion, creativity, artistic ability, musical ability, psychopathology, mental retardation, criminal-icy, homosexuality, genius, sports proficiency, or empathy. Our long fascination with handedness is shown by its mention in the Bible; references to it appear in some Egyptian tomb writings. 
The problem of handedness has caught the attention of many thinkers and scientists including Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, William James, and Thomas Carlyle. Over the past twenty years or so, researchers have shown that left-handedness is more than a minor difference. Increasingly we are coming to understand that left-handedness has social, educational, and psychological implications and affects many aspects of health, well-being, and even life span. 
This book focuses on all that distinguishes right- and left-handers. It demonstrates that handedness is only one part of sidedness, which also includes footedness, eyedness, and earedness, and shows readers how to measure their own sidedness. The book answers some common questions such Where does handedness come from? Is it coded in the genes? Does it stem from social pressure? Might it indicate some damage or injury? Is it related to the organization o{ the brain, and how? 
Further, the book examines the differences between left- and righthanders in terms of intelligence, personality, creativity, and a number of other domains.

Left hander: Everything you need to know about left-handedness

John Murray Publishers, Ltd.

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