Since their formulation by the Gestalt movement more than a century ago, the principles of
perceptual grouping have primarily been investigated in the visual modality and, to a lesser …

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

The integration of information has been considered a hallmark of human consciousness, as
it requires information being globally available via widespread neural interactions. Yet the …

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of
preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a …

The world of perception is multisensory. Even a simple task such as judging the position of a
light in a dark room depends not only on vision but also on sensory signals about the …

What is depiction? A new answer is given to this venerable question by providing a
syncretistic theory of depiction that tries to combine the merits of the previous theories on the …

When the two eyes are presented with dissimilar images, human observers report
alternating percepts—a phenomenon coined binocular rivalry. These perceptual fluctuations …

We review the evidence suggesting that the bistable/multistable percepts that exist in the so-
called higher senses of vision, audition, and touch do not seem to occur in the chemical …

In multistable perception, the brain alternates between several perceptual explanations of
ambiguous sensory signals. It is unknown whether multistable processes can interact across …

Hello. If you find visual illusions fascinating this book is for you. I start by providing some
background, some history and some theories about visual illusions, and I discuss in some …