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Sensation and Perception

by: Yantis, Steven; Abrams, Richard A.

Sensation and Perception

by: Yantis, Steven; Abrams, Richard A.

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Copyright: 08/08/2016
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Summary

Learn more about how we sense and perceive the world around us by understanding the connections between mind, brain, and behavior in the realm of sensation and perception conveyed through classic findings and cutting-edge research included in Sensation and Perception.

Author Biography

Steven Yantis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, with secondary appointments in the Departments of Cognitive Science and Neuroscience. He studied experimental psychology as an undergraduate at the University of Washington in Seattle, and later he received a PhD in Experimental Psychology at the University of Michigan. Following a year as postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, he joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University, where he has been ever since. Yantis has research interests that include visual perception, attention, and cognition. Members of the Yantis laboratory measure behavior (response time, eye movements) and brain activity (functional MRI) as people carry out tasks that probe perception and attention. He has taught a variety of courses in human perception and attention for more than two decades. In Visual Perception: Essential Readings (Psychology Press, 2000), Yantis assembled 25 articles published over 100 years that laid the foundations of the field, and he is the volume editor of the Stevens Handbook of Experimental Psychology (3e): Volume 1: Sensation and Perception (Wiley, 2002). Yantis received the Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association in 1994 and the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences in 1996.

BRIEF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Foundations
Chapter 2: Light and the Eyes
Chapter 3: The Visual Brain
Chapter 4: Recognizing Visual Objects
Chapter 5: Perceiving Color
Chapter 6: Perceiving Depth
Chapter 7: Perceiving Motion
Chapter 8: Perception for Action
Chapter 9: Attention and Awareness
Chapter 10: Sound and the Ears
Chapter 11: The Auditory Brain and Perceiving Auditory Scenes
Chapter 12: Perceiving Speech and Music
Chapter 13: The Body Senses
Chapter 14: Olfaction: Perceiving Odors
Chapter 15: Gustation: Perceiving Tastes and Flavors

DETAILED CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Foundations

Vignette: "I’m Having a Stroke!"

World, Brain, and Mind
The Perceptual Process

Three Main Types of Questions

How Many Senses Are There?
Evolution and Perception

Check Your Understanding

Exploring Perception by Studying Behavior: Psychophysics
Absolute Threshold

Method of Adjustment

Method of Constant Stimuli

Staircase Method

Difference Threshold

Method of Adjustment

Method of Constant Stimuli

Weber’s Law

Psychophysical Scaling

Fechner’s Law

Stevens’s Power Law

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Exploring Perception by Studying Neurons and the Brain
Neurons and Neural Signals

Action Potentials

Transmitting Signals Between Neurons

The Human Brain

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Cognitive Neuropsychology

Functional Neuroimaging

Electroencephalography and Magnetoencephalography

Positron Emission Tomography

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Diffuse Optical Tomography

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APPLICATIONS: Self-Driving Cars

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Summary

Key Terms

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Chapter 2: Light and the Eyes

Vignette: A Rare Case: Vision Without Cones

Light
Light as a Wave

Light as a Stream of Particles

The Optic Array

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The Human Eye
Field of View

Acuity and Eye Movements

Structure and Function of the Eye

Lens and Accommodation

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Retina

The Retinal Image

Anatomy of the Retina

Fovea

Pathways of Neural Signals in the Retina: An Overview

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Photoreceptors: Rods and Cones
Transduction of Light

Number and Distribution of Rods and Cones in the Retina

Adapting to Changes in Lighting

Operating Range

Dark Adaptation

Photopigment Regeneration

Rod Sensitivity

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Retinal Ganglion Cells: Circuits in the Retina Send Information to the Brain
Convergence in Retinal Circuits

Receptive Fields

Size and Distribution of Receptive Fields

Retinal Ganglion Cells Have Center–Surround Receptive Fields

Center–Surround Receptive Fields Exhibit Lateral Inhibition

Edge Enhancement: An Example of How It All Works Together

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Disorders of the Eye
Strabismus and Amblyopia

Disorders of Accommodation: Myopia, Hyperopia, Presbyopia, and Astigmatism

Cataracts

High Intraocular Pressure: Glaucoma

Floaters and Phosphenes

Retinal Disease: Macular Degeneration and Retinitis Pigmentosa

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APPLICATIONS: Night-Vision Devices

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Summary

Key Terms

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Chapter 3: The Visual Brain
Vignette: No Thing to See

From Eye to Brain
Lateral Geniculate Nucleus

Pathways from the Retina to the LGN

Functional Specialization of the Layers of the LGN

Information Flow and the LGN

Superior Colliculus

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Primary Visual Cortex (Area V1)
Response Properties of V1 Neurons

Simple Cells

Complex Cells

Responses to Other Visual Features

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Organization of V1
Ocular Dominance Columns

Orientation Columns

Retinotopic Maps and Cortical Magnification

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Functional Areas, Pathways, and Modules
Functional Areas and Pathways

Pathways from the LGN to the Brain’s Visual Areas

The Dorsal and Ventral Pathways

Functional Modules

Area V4: Color and Curvature

Lateral Occipital Cortex and Inferotemporal Cortex: Objects, Faces, and Places

Area MT: Motion

Intraparietal Sulcus: Visually Guided Action

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APPLICATIONS: Brain Implants for the Blind

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Summary

Key Terms

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Chapter 4: Recognizing Visual Objects
Vignette: Face-Blind

A Few Basic Considerations
Object Familiarity

Image Clutter, Object Variety, and Variable Views

Representation and Recognition

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Overview: The Fundamental Steps

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Perceptual Organization
Representing Edges and Regions

Figure–Ground Organization: Assigning Border Ownership

Principles of Figure–Ground Organization

Neural Basis of Border Ownership Assignment

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Perceptual Grouping: Combining Regions

Principles of Perceptual Grouping

Proximity

Similarity

Common Motion

Symmetry and Parallelism

Good Continuation

Neural Basis of Perceptual Grouping

Perceptual Interpolation: Perceiving What Can’t Be Seen Directly

Edge Completion
Surface Completion
Neural Basis of Perceptual Interpolation
Perceptual Organization Reflects Natural Constraints
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Object Recognition
Hierarchical Processes: Shape Representation in V4 and Beyond

Shape Representation in V4

Shape Representation Beyond V4

The Question of "Grandmother Cells"

Modular and Distributed Representations: Faces, Places, and Other Categories of Objects

Top-Down Information
The Gist of a Scene

Unconscious Inference and the Bayesian Approach

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APPLICATIONS: Automatic Face Recognition
Feature-Based Approach

Holistic Approach

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Summary

Key Terms

Expand Your Understanding

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Chapter 5: Perceiving Color
Vignette: Colorless

Light and Color
Spectral Power Distribution

Spectral Reflectance

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Dimensions of Color: Hue, Saturation, and Brightness
Color Circle and Color Solid

Color Mixtures

Subtractive Color Mixtures: Mixing Substances

Additive Color Mixtures: Mixing Lights

Complementary Colors

Primary Colors

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Color and the Visual System
Trichromatic Color Representation

Color Matching with Mixtures of Three Primary Colors

Cones and Colors

Principle of Univariance

If You Had Only One Type of Cone (or Only Rods)

If You Had Only Two Types of Cones

Physiological Evidence for Trichromacy

Meaning of Trichromacy

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Opponent Color Representation

Four Basic Colors in Two Pairs of Opposites

Hue Cancellation

Physiological Evidence for Opponency

Color-Opponent Neurons in the Visual Pathway

Color Afterimages and Opponency

Meaning of Opponency

Color Contrast and Color Assimilation

Color Constancy

Lightness Constancy

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Color Vision Deficiencies
Inherited Deficiencies of Color Vision

Monochromacy: Total Color Blindness

Dichromacy: Partial Color Blindness

Cortical Achromatopsia: Color Blindness from Brain Damage

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APPLICATIONS: Color in Art and Technology
Pointillist Painting

Digital Color Video Displays

Digital Color Printing

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Summary

Key Terms

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Chapter 6: Perceiving Depth

Vignette: Learning to See in 3-D

Oculomotor Depth Cues
Accommodation

Convergence

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Monocular Depth Cues
Static Cues: Position, Size, and Lighting in the Retinal Image

Position in the Retinal Image

Partial Occlusion

Relative Height

Size in the Retinal Image

Lighting in the Retinal Image

Atmospheric Perspective

Shading

Cast Shadows

Dynamic Cues: Movement in the Retinal Image

Motion Parallax

Optic Flow

Deletion and Accretion

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Binocular Depth Cue: Disparity in the Retinal Images
Binocular Disparity

Corresponding and Noncorresponding Points, and the Horopter

Crossed Disparity, Uncrossed Disparity, and Zero Disparity

Correspondence Problem

Stereograms and Anaglyphs

Random-Dot Stereograms

Neural Basis of Stereopsis

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Integrating Depth Cues

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Depth and Perceptual Constancy
Size Constancy and Size–Distance Invariance

Shape Constancy and Shape–Slant Invariance

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Illusions of Depth, Size, and Shape
Forced Perspective

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APPLICATIONS: 3-D Motion Pictures and Television

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Summary

Key Terms

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Chapter 7: Perceiving Motion

Vignette: Still Life

Perceptual Organization from Motion
Perceptual Grouping Based on Real and Apparent Motion

Figure–Ground Organization

Sensitivity to Biological Motion

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Eye Movements and the Perception of Motion and Stability

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Neural Basis of Motion Perception in Area V1 and Area MT
A Simple Neural Circuit That Responds to Motion

The Motion Aftereffect

Area MT

MT Neurons Respond Selectively to Motion

Activity of MT Neurons Causes Directionally Selective Motion Perception

Disruption of Area MT Impairs Motion Perception

The Aperture Problem: Perceiving the Motion of Objects

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APPLICATIONS: Visually Induced Motion Sickness
The How and Why of Motion Sickness

Could Artificial Environments Be Made Less Sickening?

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Summary

Key Terms

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Chapter 8: Perception for Action

Vignette: Inaction

Vision Affects Action
Time to Process Visual Feedback

Optic Flow

Prism Adaptation

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Action Affects Vision
Action Plans

Action Capabilities

Visual Processing in Perihand Space

Action-Specific Perception

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Neural Basis of Perception for Action
The Role of the Parietal Lobe in Eye Movements, Reaching, and Grasping

Bimodal Neurons and Hand-Centered Receptive Fields

Handheld Tool Use

Mirror Neurons

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APPLICATIONS: Perception for Action in Baseball: Catching a Fly Ball and Hitting a Fastball
How to Catch a Fly Ball

How to Hit a Fastball

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Summary

Key Terms

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Chapter 9: Attention and Awareness

Vignette: Out of Mind, Out of Sight

Selective Attention and the Limits of Awareness
Dichotic Listening

Inattentional Blindness

Attentional Blink

Change Blindness

Check Your Understanding

Attention to Locations, Features, and Objects
Attention to Locations

Attention to Features

Attention to Objects

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Why Attention Is Selective
The Binding Problem

Competition for Neural Representation

Check Your Understanding

Attentional Control
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Attentional Control

Value-Driven Attentional Control

Sources of Attentional Control in the Brain

Check Your Understanding

Awareness and the Neural Correlates of Consciousness
Seeking the NCCs in Perceptual Bistability

What Blindsight Reveals About Awareness

Check Your Understanding

APPLICATIONS: Multitasking
Task Switching

Driving While Talking on a Cell Phone

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Summary

Key Terms

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Chapter 10: Sound and the Ears

Vignette: Dizzy

Sound
Sources of Sound

Physical and Perceptual Dimensions of Sound

Frequency and Pitch

Amplitude and Loudness

Audibility Curve: The Absolute Threshold for Hearing

Equal-Loudness Contours

Waveform and Timbre

Check Your Understanding

The Ear
Pinna, Auditory Canal, and Tympanic Membrane

Ossicles and Sound Amplification

Eustachian Tube

Check Your Understanding

Cochlea

Basilar Membrane

Organ of Corti

Stereocilia Bending and Tip Links

Inner Hair Cells and Outer Hair Cells

Check Your Understanding

Neural Representation of Frequency and Amplitude
Frequency Representation

Place Code for Frequency

Physiological Frequency Tuning Curves

Psychophysical Frequency Tuning Curves

Temporal Code for Frequency

Amplitude Representation

Check Your Understanding

Disorders of Audition
Hearing Tests and Audiograms

Conductive Hearing Impairments

Sensorineural Hearing Impairments

Age-Related Hearing Impairment

Noise-Induced Hearing Impairments

Tinnitus

Check Your Understanding

APPLICATIONS: Cochlear Implants

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Summary

Key Terms

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Chapter 11: The Auditory Brain and Perceiving Auditory Scenes

Vignette: Hearing Without Recognition

The Auditory Brain
Ascending Pathways: From the Ear to the Brain

Descending Pathways: From the Brain to the Ear

Auditory Cortex

"What" and "Where" Pathways and Other Specialized Regions of the Auditory Brain

Check Your Understanding

Localizing Sounds
Perceiving Azimuth

Interaural Level Differences

Interaural Time Differences

Head Motion and the "Cone of Confusion"

Perceiving Elevation

Check Your Understanding

Perceiving Distance

Echolocation by Bats and Humans

Echoes and the Precedence Effect

Looking While Listening: Vision and Sound Localization

Neural Basis of Sound Localization

Check Your Understanding

Auditory Scene Analysis
Simultaneous Grouping

Grouping by Harmonic Coherence

Grouping by Synchrony or Asynchrony

Sequential Grouping

Grouping by Frequency Similarity

Grouping by Temporal Proximity

Perceptual Completion of Occluded Sounds

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APPLICATIONS: Seeing by Hearing

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Summary

Key Terms

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Chapter 12: Perceiving Speech and Music

Vignette: "Singing Sounds Like Shouting to Me"

Speech
The Sounds of Speech: Phonemes

Producing the Sounds of Speech

Producing Vowels

Producing Consonants

Check Your Understanding

Perceiving the Sounds of Speech

Coarticulation and Perceptual Constancy

Categorical Perception of Phonemes

Vision and Speech Perception: The McGurk Effect

Check Your Understanding

Knowledge and Speech Perception

Syntax and Semantics

Word Segmentation

Perceptual Completion: Phonemic Restoration

Brain Pathways for Speech Perception and Production

Check Your Understanding

Music
Dimensions of Music: Pitch, Loudness, Timing, and Timbre

Scales and Keys; Consonance and Dissonance

Knowledge and Music Perception

Neural Basis of Music Perception

Check Your Understanding

APPLICATIONS: Speech Recognition by Machines

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Summary

Key Terms

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Chapter 13: The Body Senses

Vignette: Watch Yourself!

Tactile Perception: Perceiving Mechanical Stimulation of the Skin
Slow-Adapting Type I (SAI) Mechanoreceptors: Perceiving Pattern, Texture, and Shape

Check Your Understanding

Fast-Adapting Type I (FAI) Mechanoreceptors: Perceiving Slip and Maintaining Grip Control

Slow-Adapting Type II (SAII) Mechanoreceptors: Perceiving Skin Stretch and Hand Conformation

Fast-Adapting Type II (FAII) Mechanoreceptors: Perceiving Fine Textures Through Transmitted Vibration

Perceiving Pleasant Touch

Mechanoreceptor Transduction

Check Your Understanding

Proprioception: Perceiving Position and Movement of the Limbs

Nociception: Perceiving Pain
Thermoreception: Perceiving Temperature

Check Your Understanding

From Body to Brain
Somatotopic Cortical Maps

Responses and Representations in the Somatosensory Cortex and Beyond

Neural Responses in Areas S1 and S2

Dorsal and Ventral Pathways

Cortical Representation of Temperature

Pathways for the Discriminative and Affective Dimensions of Pain Perception

Top-Down Mechanisms of Pain Reduction

Cortical Plasticity and Phantom Limbs

Check Your Understanding

Haptic Perception: Recognizing Objects by Touch

The Vestibular System: Perceiving Balance and Acceleration

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APPLICATIONS: Haptic Feedback in Robot-Assisted Surgery

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Summary

Key Terms

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Chapter 14: Olfaction: Perceiving Odors

Vignette: When the Nose Knows Nothing

What Is an Odor?

Odorants

Detection and Identification of Odors
Detection Thresholds and Difference Thresholds

Identifying and Discriminating Odors

The Role of Odors in Sensing Flavor

Olfactory Impairments: Age and Other Factors

Adaptation to Odors

Check Your Understanding

Anatomical and Neural Basis of Odor Perception
The Olfactory System: From Nose to Brain

Olfactory Transduction and the Large Variety of Olfactory Receptors

Adaptation by Olfactory Receptor Neurons

Neural Code for Odor

Representing Odors in the Brain

Separate Cortical Representation of Odor Identity and Pleasantness

Cortical Adaptation to Odors

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Odors, Emotion, and Memory

Effects of Odors on Social and Reproductive Behavior
Pheromones, Sweat, and Tears

Human Leukocyte Antigen Detection

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APPLICATIONS: The eNose
How eNoses Work

eNoses on Wheels

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Summary

Key Terms

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Chapter 15: Gustation: Perceiving Tastes and Flavors

Vignette: Poor Taste

What Is Taste? What Is Flavor?
Tastants and the Basic Tastes

The Perception of Flavor

Check Your Understanding

Anatomical and Neural Basis of Taste and Flavor Perception
Taste Buds and Taste Receptor Cells

From Taste Buds to the Brain

Representing Taste and Flavor in the Brain

Adaptation and Cross-Adaptation

Cognitive Influences in the OFC, and the Flavor of Expensive Wine

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Regulating Food Intake
Sensory-Specific Satiety

Regulating Food Intake in the Absence of Taste

Individual Differences in Taste and Flavor Perception

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APPLICATIONS: How Sweet It Is? The Taste and Use of Artificial Sweeteners
Brain Responses to Artificial Sweeteners

Behavioral Responses to Artificial Sweeteners

Artificial Sweeteners and Weight Loss

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Summary

Key Terms

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Appendix: Noise and Signal Detection Theory

Noise in Neural Activity and the Psychometric Function

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Signal Detection Theory
A Signal Detection Experiment

Sensitivity and Bias

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