Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction and overview
- 2 Understanding sensory systems
- 3 Introduction to Fourier theory
- 4 Introduction to information theory
- 5 Hearing
- 6 Basic strategies of vision
- 7 The correspondence problem: stereoscopic vision, binaural hearing and movement
- 8 The properties of surfaces: colour and texture
- 9 The chemical senses
- 10 The somatosensory system
- 11 Non-human sensory systems
- 12 Sensory integration
- References
- Index
- Plate section
Plate section
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction and overview
- 2 Understanding sensory systems
- 3 Introduction to Fourier theory
- 4 Introduction to information theory
- 5 Hearing
- 6 Basic strategies of vision
- 7 The correspondence problem: stereoscopic vision, binaural hearing and movement
- 8 The properties of surfaces: colour and texture
- 9 The chemical senses
- 10 The somatosensory system
- 11 Non-human sensory systems
- 12 Sensory integration
- References
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Introduction to the SensesFrom Biology to Computer SciencePublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012