Deciphering the Senses: the Expanding World of Human Perception

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. First Edition. Octavo with green and grey half-cloth boards; brown, yellow and blue pictorial DJ; 237 pages: illustrations; index; bibliography; 23 cm DJ is very good; shows mild shelfwear with >1in closed tear to top edge and rear bottom edge, top corner of rear flap chipped; a near fine copy wit clean pages and tight binding, with toning to upper edge of boards and leaves, and ink catalog number on front endpaper . Hardcover. ISBN: 0671492063

"Classic science teaches that there are but five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling and smelling. But new scientific research has determined that there are actually many more, perhaps as many as seventeen, tuning us into much more information about the environment than most of us suppose. Deciphering the Senses discusses these new facts and theories about the human senses." --Back cover.Contents: The seventeen senses. Pain. Two different worlds ... Tabula rasa: the development of the human sensory systems. The human semaphore: the languages of nonverbal sensory communication. A guide to visual perception. Making scents. Illusion and reality. Extra-sensory perception.