Sensory Inhibition / / Georg Von Bekesy.

• VerfasserIn: Von Bekesy, Georg,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©1967
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5155
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

Psychological experiments carried out over a period of nearly forty years led Georg von Bekesy to realize that inhibition interconnects, at least in one respect, the fields of vision, hearing, skin sensations, taste, and smell. This book indeed almost creates the field of sensory inhibition as a significant one for study, bringing understanding to many observations that formerly seemed uncertain or unrelated and raising many problems still to be solved.Originally published in 1967.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Adaptation and inhibition as a means of suppressing an excess of information -- II. The inhibition of simultaneous stimuli -- III. Inhibition as a result of time delay -- IV. Stimulus localization as a method of investigating neural activity -- V. Funneling and inhibition in hearing -- VI. The role of inhibition in various fields of sensory perception -- Author’s bibliography -- References -- Index