Capturing the Senses

Capturing the Senses
Author: Giacomo Landeschi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2023-06-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031231333

This open-access book surveys how digital technology can contribute effectively to improving our understanding of the past, through a sensory engagement based on the evidence of material culture. In particular, it encourages specialists to consider senses and human agency as important factors in studying ancient space, while recognising the role played by digital tools in enhancing a human-centred form of analysis. Significant advances in archaeological computing, digital methods, and sensory approaches have led archaeologists to rethink strategies and methods for creating narratives of the past. Recent progress in data visualisation and implementation, as well as other nascent digital sensory methods, means that it is now easier to explore and experience ancient space from a multiscalar perspective, from the individual body or single building to the wider landscape. The chapters in Capturing the Senses: Digital Methods for Sensory Archaeologies present innovative methods for representing an embodied experience of ancient space, simulating (but not recreating) ancient behaviours and social interaction. Chapters cover topics including the potentials and pitfalls of visualising, recreating, and re-enacting/experiencing the senses in Virtual Reality environments and also digital reconstructions and auralisations of ancient spaces to study sound sensory perception. Overall, the book demonstrates that multisensory approaches can give a new perspective on how ancient spaces were intended to be used by inhabitants to fulfil a series of purposes including conveying messages and regulating movement. This is an open-access book.

What a Plant Knows

What a Plant Knows
Author: Daniel Chamovitz
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012-05-22
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0374288739

Explores the secret lives of various plants, from the colors they see to whether or not they really like classical music to their ability to sense nearby danger.

The Empire of the Senses

The Empire of the Senses
Author: Alexis Landau
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2016-02-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 080417346X

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year The Empire of the Senses is an enthralling tale of love and war, duty and self-discovery. It begins in 1914 when Lev Perlmutter, an assimilated German Jew fighting in World War I, finds unexpected companionship on the Eastern Front; back at home, his wife Josephine embarks on a clandestine affair of her own. A decade later, during the heady, politically charged interwar years in Berlin, their children—one, a nascent Fascist struggling with his sexuality, the other a young woman entranced by the glitz and glamour of the Jazz Age—experience their own romantic awakenings. With a painter’s sensibility for the layered images that comprise our lives, this exquisite novel by Alexis Landau marks the emergence of a writer uniquely talented in bringing the past to the present.

Senses in the City

Senses in the City
Author: Shelley Rotner
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0822575027

A group of children spend a day experiencing New York City through their senses of sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste.

My Five Senses

My Five Senses
Author: Margaret Miller
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780613084000

A simple introduction to the five senses and how they help us experience the world around us

See What I'm Saying: The Extraordinary Powers of Our Five Senses

See What I'm Saying: The Extraordinary Powers of Our Five Senses
Author: Lawrence D. Rosenblum
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2011-03-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0393077292

"Eye-opening…memorable…Rosenblum's enthusiasm is contagious and his prose accessible." —Kirkus Reviews In this revealing romp through the mysteries of human perception, University of California psychologist Lawrence D. Rosenblum explores the astonishing abilities of the five senses—skills of which most of us are unaware. Drawing on groundbreaking insights into the brain's plasticity and integrative powers, Rosenblum examines how our brains use the subtlest information to perceive the world. A blind person, for example, can "see" through bat-like echolocation, wine connoisseurs can actually taste the vintage of an obscure wine, and pheromones can signal a lover's compatibility. Bringing us into the world of a blind detective, a sound engineer, a former supermodel, and other unforgettable characters, Rosenblum not only illuminates the science behind our sensory abilities but also demonstrates how awareness of these abilities can enhance their power.

Sense, Reference, and Philosophy

Sense, Reference, and Philosophy
Author: Jerrold J. Katz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 019515813X

"In Sense, Reference, and Philosophy, Katz provides a modern interpretation of the insights of philosophers like Descartes, Kant, Locke, Mill, and G. E. Moore and thereby resets the agenda for current analytic philosophy. The scope and rigor of this book will make it of interest to a broad range of philosophers."--BOOK JACKET.

The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference

The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 5215
Release: 2020-09-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0128054093

The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference, Second Edition, Seven Volume Set is a comprehensive reference work covering the range of topics that constitute current knowledge of the neural mechanisms underlying the different senses. This important work provides the most up-to-date, cutting-edge, comprehensive reference combining volumes on all major sensory modalities in one set. Offering 264 chapters from a distinguished team of international experts, The Senses lays out current knowledge on the anatomy, physiology, and molecular biology of sensory organs, in a collection of comprehensive chapters spanning 4 volumes. Topics covered include the perception, psychophysics, and higher order processing of sensory information, as well as disorders and new diagnostic and treatment methods. Written for a wide audience, this reference work provides students, scholars, medical doctors, as well as anyone interested in neuroscience, a comprehensive overview of the knowledge accumulated on the function of sense organs, sensory systems, and how the brain processes sensory input. As with the first edition, contributions from leading scholars from around the world will ensure The Senses offers a truly international portrait of sensory physiology. The set is the definitive reference on sensory neuroscience and provides the ultimate entry point into the review and original literature in Sensory Neuroscience enabling students and scientists to delve into the subject and deepen their knowledge. All-inclusive coverage of topics: updated edition offers readers the only current reference available covering neurobiology, physiology, anatomy, and molecular biology of sense organs and the processing of sensory information in the brain Authoritative content: world-leading contributors provide readers with a reputable, dynamic and authoritative account of the topics under discussion Comprehensive-style content: in-depth, complex coverage of topics offers students at upper undergraduate level and above full insight into topics under discussion