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Science 18 April 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5874, p. 319
DOI: 10.1126/science.1157191
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PHYSIOLOGY:
Toward the Dominance of Vision?

Andreas Keller

Sensing the Past
Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History
by Mark M. Smith
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2008. 190 pp. $55. ISBN 9780520254954. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 9780520254961.
This short historical survey demonstrates how sensory perception is a cultural as well as physiological act.
The reviewer is at the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, Box 63, New York, NY 10065, USA. E-mail: kellera{at}mail.rockefeller.edu

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