The Great Courses: Sensation, Perception, and the Aging Process

Part 1. Lecture 1. Sensation, perception, and behavior -- lecture 2. Sensation and perception: a distinction -- lecture 3. Vision: stimulus and the optical system -- lecture 4. Vision: the retina -- lecture 5. Vision: beyond the optic nerve -- lecture 6. Vision: age-related changes -- lecture 7. Hearing: stimulus and supporting structures -- lecture 8. Hearing: the inner ear -- lecture 9. Hearing: age-related changes -- lecture 10. The cutaneous system: receptors, pathways -- lecture 11. The cutaneous system: early development -- lecture 12. The cutaneous system: age-related changes --

Part 2. Lecture 13. Pain: early history

lecture 14. Pain: acupuncture, endorphins, and aging

lecture 15. Taste: stimulus, structures, and receptors

lecture 16. Taste: factors influencing preferences

lecture 17. Smell: the unappreciated sense

lecture 18. Smell: consequences of anosmia

lecture 19. The vestibular system: body orientation

lecture 20. The kinesthetic sense: motor memory

lecture 21. Brain mechanisms and perception

lecture 22. Perception of language

lecture 23. The visual agnosias

lecture 24. Perception of other people/course summary.