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1 Sensation and Perception

2 Definitions Sensation sensory organs Perception brain
Individual Differences

3 Form and Function Evolution Design Sensory Ecology

4 Optimal Design Fallacy
Costs vs. Benefits Design Flaws

5 Sight Visual System Functions Visual Dominance

6 Evolution of the Eye

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

8 Hearing Backup to Vision Pitch and Loudness Stereo System
Survival Range

9 Smell Chemical Sense Chemical Sensitivity Distance and Contact
Pheromones

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

11 Touch Types of Touch Temperature Tickle

12 Pain Important Adaptation Reflexive Responses
CIP Congenital Insensitivity to Pain

13 Other Senses Balance Kinesthesia Internal Senses

14 Sensory Integration Definition Chemical Senses Bipedalism
Hearing and Vision Sensorimotor Stage

15 Sensory Adaptation Importance Changes in the Environment
Range Shifting

16 Where We Are Weak Vision Ultraviolet Spectrum Binocular Vision

17 More Human Weakness Hearing Smell Vomeronasal Organ

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

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