Sensation, perception, and the aging process: Part 1
"Professor Francis Colavita offers a biopsychological perspective on the way we humans navigate and react to the world around us in a process that is ever-changing. Our experiences are vastly different today than they were when we were children and our senses and brains were still developing; and those experiences are becoming ever more different as we age, when natural changes alert us to the need to compensate, often in ways that are quite positive"--Publisher's website.
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- Full title :Sensation, perception, and the aging process : Part 1 / Francis B. Colavita.
Summary
"Professor Francis Colavita offers a biopsychological perspective on the way we humans navigate and react to the world around us in a process that is ever-changing. Our experiences are vastly different today than they were when we were children and our senses and brains were still developing; and those experiences are becoming ever more different as we age, when natural changes alert us to the need to compensate, often in ways that are quite positive"--Publisher's website.
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- Publication Date:©2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Teaching Co
- Place of Publication:Chantilly, Va
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2006.
Notes
Compact discs.
Contains 6 CD's.
The Physical Object
- Description:12 audio discs (approximately 720 min.) : : digital ; : 4 3/4 in.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781598032284, 1598032283
- oclc:ocn732754219
Table of Contents
Part 1. Lecture 1. Sensation, perception, and behavior -- Lecture 2. Sensation and perception -- a distinction -- Lecture 3. Vision -- stimulus and the optical system -- Lecture 4. Vision -- the retina -- Lecture 5. Vision -- beyond the optic nerve -- Lecture 6. Vision -- age-related changes -- Lecture 7. Hearing -- stimulus and supporting structures -- Lecture 8. Hearing -- the inner ear -- Lecture 9. Hearing -- age-related changes -- Lecture 10. The cutaneous system -- receptors, pathways -- Lecture 11. The cutaneous system -- early development -- Lecture 12. The cutaneous system -- age-related changes.
Part 2. Lecture 13. Pain -- early history -- Lecture 14. Pain -- acupuncture, endorphines, and aging -- Lecture 15. Taste -- stimulus, structures, and receptors -- Lecture 16. Taste -- factors influencing preferences -- Lecture 17. Smell -- the unappreciated sense -- Lecture 18. Smell -- consequences of anosmia -- Lecture 19. The vestibular system -- body orientation -- Lecture 20. The kinesthetic sense -- motor memory -- Lecture 21. Brain mechanisms and perception -- Lecture 22. Perception of language -- Lecture 23. The visual agnosias -- Lecture 24. Perception of other people/…
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