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Summary:

"Professor Francis Colavita offers a biopsychological perspective on the way we humans navigate and react to the world around us in a process that is ever-changing. Our experiences are vastly different today than they were when we were children and our senses and brains were still developing; and those experiences are becoming ever more different as we age, when natural changes alert us to the need to compensate, often in ways that are quite positive"--Publisher's website.

Table of Contents:

• Part 1. Lecture 1. Sensation, perception, and behavior
• Lecture 2. Sensation and perception
• a distinction
• Lecture 3. Vision
• stimulus and the optical system
• Lecture 4. Vision
• the retina
• Lecture 5. Vision
• beyond the optic nerve
• Lecture 6. Vision
• age-related changes
• Lecture 7. Hearing
• stimulus and supporting structures
• Lecture 8. Hearing
• the inner ear
• Lecture 9. Hearing
• age-related changes
• Lecture 10. Cutaneous system
• receptors, pathways
• Lecture 11. Cutaneous system

• early development
• Lecture 12. Cutaneous system
• age-related changes
• Part 2. Lecture 13. Pain
• early history
• Lecture 14. Pain
• acupuncture, endorphines, and aging
• Lecture 15. Taste
• stimulus, structures, and receptors
• Lecture 16. Taste
• factors influencing preferences
• Lecture 17. Smell
• the unappreciated sense
• Lecture 18. Smell
• consequences of anosmia
• Lecture 19. Vestibular system
• body orientation
• Lecture 20. Kinesthetic sense
• motor memory
• Lecture 21. Brain mechanisms and perception
• Lecture 22. Perception of language
• Lecture 23. Visual agnosias
• Lecture 24. Perception of other people/course summary.

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Author/Creator:

Colavita, Francis B.

Contributors:

Teaching Company

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Main Work:

Sensation, perception, and the aging process [by Colavita, F.B.]

Related Series:

Great courses (DVD)

Subjects:

Senses and sensation

Senses and sensation in old age

Perception

System Details:

DVD.

Performers:

Lectures delivered by Professor Francis B. Colavita, University of Pittsburgh.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references in guidebooks.
24 lectures (30 minutes each).
In two containers.
"Science & mathematics"--Container.
Public performance rights included.

Physical Description:

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm).

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; polychrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

SEN DVD

ISBNs:

1598032291
9781598032291

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Teaching Company: 1546

OCLC Numbers:

1053077319
75624743 [Invalid]