Welcome

Welcome to the companion website for Foundations of Sensation and Perception, Fourth Edition

The new edition of Foundations of Sensation and Perception will enable the reader to gain a firm grasp of current knowledge concerning the processes that underlie our perception of the world and will be an invaluable resource for those studying psychology, neuroscience, and related disciplines.

The text of the fourth edition has been extensively updated to reflect the latest research, and the chapters have been reorganised to cover vision and hearing before the other senses. Other changes in this edition include:

  • Balance and the body senses now covered in separate chapters
  • Material on attention and individual differences integrated into other chapters
  • Over 80 addition references to work published since the last edition appeared

This companion website has also been updated and offers an array of supplementary materials for both students and instructors. It includes:

Student Resources

  • Chapter summaries
  • Multiple-choice and gap-fill quizzes
  • Flash cards to test definitions of key terms
  • A comprehensive chapter-by-chapter glossary of key terms used in the book
  • Animations and simulations of key perceptual phenomena

Access to the Student Resources is freely available and free-of-charge.

Instructor Resources

  • A testbank of multiple-choice questions
  • The figures from the book in PowerPoint

Access to the Instructor Resources is restricted to instructors only by password protection. These resources are free of charge to qualifying adopters.

Book Information Complimentary Exam Copy

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