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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
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
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