Seeing, hearing, and smelling the world : new findings help scientists make sense of our senses / [editor, Maya Pines].

Chevy Chase, Md. : Howard Hughes Medical Institute, [1995], ©1995.

60 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Cover title.

"A report from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute."

Our common senses / by Maya Pines -- Breaking the code of color / by Geoffrey Montgomery -- How we see things that move / by Geoffrey Montgomery -- Brain scans that spy on the senses -- The quivering bundles that let us hear / by Jeff Goldberg -- Locating a mouse by its sound / by Jeff Goldberg -- The mystery of smell / by Maya Pines -- A secret sense in the human nose? / by Maya Pines -- The next generation.