Description: “But the various senses incidentally perceive each other’s objects, not as so many separate senses, but as forming a single sense, when there is concurrent perception relating to the same object.” -Aristotle, de Anima The questions of how our brain constructs a unified perceptual experience from the myriad of sensory signals in our environment has long intrigued and…
“But the various senses incidentally perceive each other’s objects, not as so many separate senses, but as forming a single sense, when there is concurrent perception relating to the same object.”
-Aristotle, de Anima
The questions of how our brain constructs a unified perceptual experience from the myriad of sensory signals in our environment has long intrigued and baffled scientist: from ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle ( 1 , 2 ), Gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer ( 3 , transl. ), to modern-day psychologist Anne Treisman ( 4 ) and neuroscientist Wolf Singer ( 5 ).