Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception

Your senses aren't just a part of you, they define you. Nothing that you experience in your life would be possible without the intricate power of your senses.Your senses aren't just a part of you, they define you. Nothing that you experience in your life, from the most important to the most mundane, would be possible without the intricate power of your senses. But how much about them do you really know?

Your ability to sense and perceive the world around you is so richly detailed and accurate as to be miraculous. No other animal, no expertly designed supercomputer, nothing in the entire universe of scientific exploration can even come close to matching the ability of your brain to use information sensed by your eyes, ears, skin, tongue, and nose to produce a rich sensory experience in a matter of milliseconds.

And in recent years, neurobiologists and other scientists have uncovered new insights into how your senses work and all the amazingly complex and fascinating things they can do, whether you're aware of them or not. Knowing how your senses work and the ways they shape how you see, interact with, and understand your life will help you think more critically about everything you sense and perceive, strengthen your appreciation for the everyday marvels of your senses, prepare you to be active consumers of new scientific evidence on how our senses work, and much more.

Discover the secret life of your senses with Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception, an intriguing and unforgettable 24-lecture course delivered by award-winning Professor Peter M. Vishton of The College of William & Mary, a masterful educator who has spent several decades immersed in exploring the frontiers of human perception.

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H1. Your Amazing, Intelligent Senses
H2. The Physiological Hardware of Your Senses
H3. Neuroimaging. The Sensory Brain at Work
H4. Brain Modules. Subcomponents of the Senses
H5. Perceiving a World in Motion
H6. Seeing Distance and Depth
H7. Seeing Color and Light
H8. Your World of Taste and Olfaction
H9. Hearing the World around You
H10. Speech and Language Perception
H11. Touch. Temperature, Vibration, and Pressure
H12. Pain. How It Works for You
H13. Perception in Action
H14. Attention and Perception
H15. Kinesthetic Perception
H16. Seeing, Remembering, Inferring Infants
H17. How Infants Sense and Act On Their World
H18. Illusions and Magic
H19. Perceiving Emotion in Others and Ourselves
H20. Sensing the Thoughts of Others. ESP
H21. Opponent Process for Perception and Life
H22. Synesthesia. Tasting Color and Seeing Sound
H23. How Your Sensory Systems Learn
H24. Fixing, Replacing, and Enhancing the Senses