The study of sensation and perception looks at how we acquire, process, and interpret
information about the outside world. By describing key ideas from first principles, this …

The following is based largely on sections of our two recent books: Frisby and Stone (2010,
Seeing MIT Press), and Stone (2012, Vision and Brain MIT Press). Those books are aimed …

The nervous system integrates past information together with predictions about the future in
order to produce rewarding actions for the organism. This dissertation focuses on the …