دانلود کتاب Making Sense of the Senses

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Contents Acknowledgement Foreword Introduction Chapter 1 Making the Senses Chapter 2 Vision Let There be Light A Window Takes Shape Through the Looking Glass Creating an Image Vision and Perception Chapter 3 Hearing Good Vibrations An Inconspicuous Mutation The Human Ear Taming the Airwaves Vibrations Become Sound I Hear What You’re Saying Chapter 4 Smell An Early Sense Sniffing for Smells Understanding a Smell Thinking With Your Nose Guided By Our Noses Chapter 5 Taste A Taste for Flavour Taste and the Need to Feed On the Tip of the Tongue What Does It Taste Like? Flavour — A Convergence of the Senses Who Decides What Something Tastes Like? Chapter 6 Touch The Catch-‘em-all of Senses A Tiny Touch Mostly About Hair The Ways We Can Touch Creating a Signal from Touch Many Ways to the Brain Touching on the Clinical Perspective Chapter 7 The Hidden Senses Hidden in Plain Sight A Balancing Act Heed the Warnings Use Your Common Senses A Sense of Consciousness Time will Tell Friend, Foe or Self What It Means to Sense Chapter 8 Making Sense Across the Animal World Eyes in the Animal Kingdom Different Answers to the Same Question A Master of Vision Satellite Dishes and Seeing in the Dark A Third Eye Eyes Plentiful Predatory Birds’ Need for Accuracy Of Snakes and Men Ears in the Animal Kingdom Seeing with Your Ears Hearing with Your Feet Hearing Low While Flying High Noses in the Animal Kingdom A Helping Nose Different Uses for Smell The Olfactory Elites Noses Big and Small Smelling Through Someone Else’s Nose Taste in the Animal Kingdom Tasting with Your Genes Surviving Without Taste Taste by Seeing and Seeing by Taste Touch in the Animal Kingdom Touch by Hair Unlikely but Touchy Organisms Chapter 9 The Superhuman Senses of the Animal Kingdom Products of Time and Space Exploiting the Polar Opposites Guided by Electricity and Pressure Polarised Light and Biological Sunglasses Moisture, Air Pressure and Natural Meteorologists Chasing Flames The Dorsal Light Reflex and Using the Sun for Balance Feeding off Radioactivity Beyond All Senses Chapter 10 The Future of the Senses The Future of Vision The Future of Hearing The Future of Smell The Future of Taste The Future of Touch Robotics, AI, and the Unknown Bionic Vision Bionic Hearing Bionic Smell Bionic Taste Bionic Touch Artificial Intelligence and the Unknown Chapter 11 A Final Remark References Index