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Sensation and Perception

Definitions Sensation sensory organs Perception brain Individual Differences

Form and Function Evolution Design Sensory Ecology

Optimal Design Fallacy Costs vs. Benefits Design Flaws

Sight Visual System Functions Visual Dominance

Evolution of the Eye

Sight Involves: Also: Depth Perception Color Perception Motion Detection Shape Constancy Size Constancy Also: Facial Recognition Biological Movement

Hearing Backup to Vision Pitch and Loudness Stereo System Survival Range

Smell Chemical Sense Chemical Sensitivity Distance and Contact Pheromones

Taste Chemicals Sense Combination of Types Taste Types Sweet Salt Sour Bitter Umami Fat

Touch Types of Touch Temperature Tickle

Pain Important Adaptation Reflexive Responses CIP Congenital Insensitivity to Pain

Other Senses Balance Kinesthesia Internal Senses

Sensory Integration Definition Chemical Senses Bipedalism Hearing and Vision Sensorimotor Stage

Sensory Adaptation Importance Changes in the Environment Range Shifting

Where We Are Weak Vision Ultraviolet Spectrum Binocular Vision

More Human Weakness Hearing Smell Vomeronasal Organ

What We Lack Echolocation Electroreception Magnetoreception Current Detection Polarized Light Detection Slit Sincillae

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