Introduction. Early philosophy of perception ; Nativism and empiricism ; The dawn of psychophysics ; The biology of perception -- The first steps in vision : seeing stars. A little light physics ; Eyes that see lgiht ; Retinal information processing ; Whistling in the dark : dark and light adaptation ; The man who could not see stars -- Spatial vision : from stars to stripes. Visual acuity : oh say, can you see? ; Retinal ganglion cells and stripes ; The lateral geniculate nucleus ; Striate cortex ; Receptive fields in striate cortex ; Columns and hypercolumns ; Selective adaptation : the psychologist's electrode ; The development of spatial vision ; The girl who almost couldn't see stripes -- Perceiving and recognizing objects. Middle vision ; Object recognition -- The perception of color. Basic principles of color perception ; Trichromacy ; Opponent processes ; Does everyone see colors the same way? ; From the color of lights to a world of color -- Space perception and binocular vision. Monocular cues to three-dimensional space ; Binocular vision and stereopsis ; Combining depth cues ; Development of binocular vision and stereopsis -- Motion perception. Computation of visual motion ; Using motion information ; Eye movements ; Development of motion perception ; The man who couldn't see motion.

Attention and scene perception. Selection in space ; Visual search ; Attending in time : RSVP and the attentional blink ; The physiological basis of attention ; Disorders of visual attention ; Perceiving and understanding scenes -- Hearing: physiology and psychoacoustics. The function of hearing ; What is sound? ; Basic structure of the mammalian auditory system ; Basic operating characteristics of the auditory system ; Hearing loss -- Hearing in the environment. Sound localization ; Complex sounds ; Auditory scene analysis ; Continuity and restoration effects -- Music and speech perception. Music ; Speech -- Touch. Touch physiology ; Tactile sensitivity and acuity ; Haptic perception -- Olfaction. Olfactory physiology ; From chemicals to smells ; Olfactory psychophysics, identification, and adaptation ; Olfactory hedonics ; Olfaction, memory, and emotion -- Taste. Taste versus flavor ; Anatomy and physiology of the gustatory system ; The four basic tastes ; The pleasures of taste ; Coding of taste quality ; Genetic variation in taste experience -- Spatial orientation and the vestibular system. Modalities and qualities of spatial orientation ; Peripheral structure of the mammalian vestibular system ; Spatial orientation perception ; Sensory integration ; Reflexive vestibular responses ; Cortical projections.