Our sensory receptors do not detect all aspects of the world around us. What information our
receptors do manage to detect is integrated by the nervous systern to yield perceptions of …

Instead of studying perceptual organisation and object recognition in relative isolation, they
can be viewed as two highly related sets of processes performed by the visual system to …

A long-standing debate in perception concerns the question of whether perceptual
organization is guided by internal efficiency (the simplicity principle) or by external …

In one way or another, most research in Perception is concerned with sensory individuals,
which are meant here in the sense of perceptual objects. For example, the stimuli presented …

Our present understanding of perceptual organization has its roots in the observations and
qualitative principles of the Gestalt psychologists. Gestaltists and their associates identified …

Before reading this chapter, pause for a minute and have a look at your surroundings. Notice
the details of the room and the various objects scattered around it. Perhaps you have just …

Two traditions have had a great impact on the theoretical and experimental research of
perception. One tradition is statistical, stretching from Fechner's enunciation of …

This book presents an analysis of limits in perception from the vantage point of the physicist,
the engineer, the psychophysicist, the psychologist and the theorist. Limits in perception find …

Decoding and interpreting incoming sensory information are among the brain's most
important tasks. These are ongoing processes that make it possible for us not only to know …

In Berkeley's language, the question from which this book arises is this one: Is what we
immediately perceive by the senses something that depends for its existence upon our …