Information, Sensation, and Perception

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"The 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley argued that knowledge of the external world is acquired indirectly, on the basis of information provided by the senses, and is therefore necessarily uncertain. In Information, Sensation, and Perception, Kenneth Norwich skillfully translates Berkeley's phenomenology into a mathematical theory that considers the process of perception in terms of the nervous systems attempt to maximize the verisimilitude of the sensory picture that it receives....this book affords us clear insight into the style of reasoning required to see the empirical laws of perception as the natural outcomes of a common, unified theory."
--JOHN C. BAIRD, Department of Psychology, Dartmouth College, in SCIENCE
"This excellent work should be read by all scholars seeking insight into the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of psychophysics."
--JOHN C. BAIRD, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
"The elegance and the comprehensiveness of Norwich's work cannot, or at least should not, be dismissed. The logic and analyses are thorough and compelling. Norwich makes a strong case for the view that laws and theory of physics can be deployed so as to characterize many of psychophysical properties of sensory/perceptual systems."
--LAWRENCE E. MARKS, Pierce Laboratory, Yale University