Perception

The world of perception is multisensory. Even a simple task such as judging the position of a light in a dark room depends not only on vision but also on sensory signals about the position of our body in space. Likewise how we experience food depends on sensory signals originating from the mouth but also from nose signals and even vision and hearing. However traditional books on perception still discuss each of the senses separately. This book takes a differentstance: it defines perception as intrinsically multisensory from the start and examines multisensory interactions as key process behind how we perceive our own body control its movements perceive and recognise objects respond to edible objects perceive space and perceive time. In addition thebook discusses multisensory processing in synaesthesia multisensory attention and the role of multisensory processing in learning.As an introduction to multisensory perception this book is essential reading for students in psychology philosophy and neuroscience at the advanced undergraduate to postgraduate levels. As the chapters address topics that are often left out of standard textbooks this book will also serve as a useful reference for specialist perception scientists and clinicians. Finally as a monograph understandable to the educated non-specialist this book will also be of interest to professionals who needto take into account multisensory processing in domains such as for instance physiotherapy neurological rehabilitation human-computer interfaces marketing or the design of products and services.