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Pathfinder: Sensation and Perception
Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Videos
Scope:
Sensation may be defined as the acquisition of “raw”
information by the body’s external and internal sense
organs. Perception is the processing and interpretation
of sensations. These processes involve vision, hearing,
the skin, body, and chemical senses.
(Colman, Companion Encyclopedia of Encyclopedia)
The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a
guideline for student research. It is not intended as a
comprehensive listing of all the resources available in
the library, but as a selective sampling of the many
types of materials available on this topic.
Books dealing with sensation and perception are listed
in the Baddour Library online catalog under the
following subject headings:
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Senses and sensation
Human behavior
There are sources located in the Reference Section of
the Baddour Library that give a general overview or
summary of the topic you are researching. The following
is a list of some of the sources available in the
library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REF BF 149.C36 1998 A Century of Psychology as Science
REF BF31.C66 1994 Companion Encyclopedia of Psychology
REF BF 31.E52 2000 Encyclopedia of Psychology
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Some representative books from the Circulating
Collection located upstairs in the library:
Ackerman, Diane.
A
Natural History of the Senses. New
York: Random House, 1990.
Findlay, John M.
Active
Vision: The Psychology of
Looking and Seeing. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2003.
Freeman, Walter J.
How
Brains Make up Their Minds. New
York: Columbia University
Press, 2000.
Gifford, Don.
The
Farther Shore: A Natural History of
Perception, 1798-1984.
New York: Vintage Books, 1991.
Gordon, Ian E.
Theories of
Visual Perception. Chichester,
New York: J. Wiley,
1997.
Reed, Edward.
James J. Gibson and the
Psychology of
Perception. New Haven: Yale
Yale University Press, 1988.
Restak, Richard M.
The
Secret Life of the Brain.
Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press,
2001.
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Some of the specific periodicals that the library
subscribes to that deal with this topic include:
British Journal of Psychology
Current Psychology
Journal of Experimental Psychology
Journal of Personality
Journal of Psychology
Nature
Psychology Today
VIDEOS
QP360.S4 1971
The Sensory
World
Updated
02/08/2007
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