Our Senses : Gateways to Consciousness.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 | The Brainless Majority: Sensing the Environment in Organisms without Brains -- 2 | Brains and Prains: Brains (or Not) in Animals from Sponges to Us -- 3 | The Monkey's Unculus: Tactile and Balance Sensory Capacity in Animals -- 4 | A Matter of Taste (and Odorant) Receptors: Smell and Taste Reception in Animals -- 5 | All Ears (and Eyes): Animal Hearing and Sight -- 6 | Supersmellers and Supertasters: The Limits of Smell and Taste in Humans -- 7 | Where Am I? The Limits of Hearing and Balance in Humans -- 8 | Touchy Feely: Touch and How It Is Linked to Other Senses -- 9 | The Eyes Have It: The Limits of Sight in Humans -- 10 | Accidents Will Happen: Traumatic Brain Injury and the Impact on Our Senses -- 11 | Modern Life, Strokes, and the Senses: The Impact of Strokes and Other Brain Damage on Sensory Capacity -- 12 | Full/Half/Split Brains: People with Unique Brains -- 13 | Team of Rivals Meets the Kluge: Making Sense Out of Crossmodal Stimuli from the Outer World -- 14 | Neural Detritus: Making Sense Out of a Noisy Environment -- 15 | Pani ca' Meusa, Crème Brûlée, and Synesthesia: Crossmodal Impact on Taste and Synesthesia -- 16 | Connectomes: How Crossmodal Interactions Work in the Brain -- 17 | Faces and Hallucinations: Facial Recognition and Hallucinations as Subjects in Higher Perception -- 18 | Bob Dylan's Nobel: Language, Literacy, and How the Senses Interact to Produce Literature -- 19 | Facing the Music: The Neurobiology of Music and Art -- 20 | No Limits: The Limits to What We Can Sense and the Future of Our Senses -- Literature and Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

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