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2.1 Introduction 2.1 Introduction
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2.1.1 Sensory Coding 2.1.1 Sensory Coding
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2.1.2 Psychophysics 2.1.2 Psychophysics
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2.1.3 Perceptual Processing 2.1.3 Perceptual Processing
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2.1.4 Neural and Experiential Comparisons 2.1.4 Neural and Experiential Comparisons
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2.2 The Neurophysiology of Sensory Coding 2.2 The Neurophysiology of Sensory Coding
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2.2.1 A Brief History of Sensory Coding Research 2.2.1 A Brief History of Sensory Coding Research
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The Early Neuroscientific History of Sensory Research The Early Neuroscientific History of Sensory Research
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The Empirical-Deterministic Era The Empirical-Deterministic Era
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The Modern Probabilistic Era The Modern Probabilistic Era
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2.3 Psychophysics 2.3 Psychophysics
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2.4 Cognitive Neuroscience of Sensation 2.4 Cognitive Neuroscience of Sensation
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2.4.1 The Traditional Period of Sensory Neuroscience 2.4.1 The Traditional Period of Sensory Neuroscience
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Somatosensation Somatosensation
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Taste Taste
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Audition Audition
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Vision Vision
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2.5 Interim Summary 2.5 Interim Summary
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Abstract
This chapter discusses sensation in the context of peripheral processes, as well as sensory coding, psychophysics, complex perceptual responses, and neural–psychophysical comparisons. The neuroscientific study of sensory coding does not require the subject's cognitive participation as it is conducted on animal preparations. The chapter emphasizes the absence of a unique sensory code and states that sensory coding topics are concerned with peripheral neural responses. The conceptual bonds between sensory coding phenomena and psychophysics are based on isomorphic analogies. The chapter reports that although different methods have been used to ascertain whether a neuron is encoding information efficiently, modern sensory coding research has not provided an authentic and universally acceptable solution to this fundamental problem.
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