ABSTRACT
As I pondered the focus of this book, I realized that I have been less interested in what I could do for habituation than in what habituation could do for me. My abiding concern over the years has been in perceptual development. That may not appear obvious from my research but that is because I, and many of my peers, are living examples of the rather hoary story of the drunk who, because of the better visibility, looked for his watch in the gutter under the street light rather than in the dark alley where he had dropped it.
