This book defines the terminology used in the fields of sensation and perception and describes the biological and physical bases required for understanding sensory experiences.

Gunnar A. V. Borg was born in Stockholm on 28. November 1927. Educated at Stockholm University, he obtained his Ph. D. from the University of Lund in 1962.

This volume presents a series of studies that expand laws, invariants, and principles of psychophysics beyond its classical domain of sensation.

Brings together cutting edge experiments and theoretical treatments regarding space, time and motion in visual neuroscience and psychophysics.

He and the editorial staff of Plenum Press have been of immense help in initiating the series as well as helping with the details of this first volume.

The book, written in a tutorial style, will appeal to new researchers as well as to seasoned veterans.

Sensory factors play a minor role in cognitive approaches. This work admits the validity of both forms of theory by arguing that the same empirical phenomena should be conceptualized in two alternative, apparently contradictory, ways.

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This book will serve as a basic source and reference work for psychologists and natural scientists, as well as for anyone in the arts or sciences or those who are interested in human perception.