Chapter 4 Outline

Chapter 4 Outline

  • Introduction
  • Introductory Box The Remarkable Success of Cochlear Implants
  • The Auditory System
    • Sound stimuli
    • The peripheral auditory system
    • The auditory cortices
    • The perception of sound
    • Perceiving the location of sound sources
  • Box 4A Measuring Loudness
  • Box 4B Music and Its Effects
  • The Mechanosensory Systems
    • The cutaneous/subcutaneous system
    • The pain system
  • Box 4C Somatosensory Illusions
  • Box 4D Phantom Limbs
  • The Chemosensory Modalities
    • The olfactory system
    • The taste system
    • Trigeminal chemosensation
  • Some Final Points about Sensory Systems
    • Coding and labeled lines
    • The malleability of sensory circuitry
    • Awareness of sensory stimuli
    • The representation of sensory percepts
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