Abraham Moles's newly translated Information Theory and Esthetic Perception is a book with one interesting idea, which emerges, crablike, from the murky burrow of Chapter Five. The idea is that ...

Anne Treisman, a psychologist whose pathbreaking research into human perception and attention helped explain how the mind, not the eyes, serves as the true window to the world, died Feb. 9 at her home ...

In 1834, the German physiologist Ernst Weber (pictured above) carried out a series of experiments to determine the limits of sensory perception. He gave a blindfolded man a mass to hold and gradually ...