Introduction to the Senses

by Terry Bossomaier

Book Overview

An understanding of the senses - vision, hearing, touch, chemical and other non-human senses - is important not only for many fields of biology but also in applied areas such as human computer interaction, robotics and computer games. Using information theory as a unifying framework, this is a wide-ranging survey of sensory systems, covering all known senses. The book draws on three unifying principles to examine senses: the Nyquist sampling theorem;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521812666
• ISBN13: 9780521812665
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.7"