ABSTRACT
Perception constitutes the necessary first step in experiencing and interpreting the world. For this reason, philosophers, psychologists, physiologists, and physicists alike have been attracted to the study of perception. Our everyday experiences raise many intriguing perceptual questions. How do we achieve stable perceptions amidst constant fluctuations in the environment? How do perceptions come to be invested with meaning? How are the individual features of things we perceive synthesized into organized wholes? How do we see a three-dimensional world when visual processing begins with a two-dimensional image in the eye?
