The field of perception is devoted to explaining the operation of the senses and the
experiences and behaviors resulting from stimulation of the senses. Perceptual processes
such as recognizing faces, seeing color, hearing music, and feeling pain represent the
actions of complex mechanisms, yet we usually do them easily. The Encyclopedia of Perception
presents a comprehensive overview of the field of perception through authoritative essays
written by leading researchers and theoreticians in psychology, the cognitive sciences,
neuroscience, and medical disciplines. It presents two parallel and interacting approaches:
the psychophysical, or determining the relationship between stimuli in the environment and
perception, and the physiological, or locating the biological systems responsible for
perception. Are there any processes not associated with perception? Surely there are, but
the pervasiveness of perception is truly impressive, and the phenomena of perception and
its mechanisms are what this encyclopedia is about.

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