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How We See What We See (Science For Everyone)

We now come to another book in the Science for Everyone Series called How We See What We See by V. Demidov. The title of the book is self-explanatory. The back cover of the book says: Pattern recognition and freaks of fashions, the perception of color and the structure of the visual tract, optical illusions and shaping of the mental model of the world are some of the topics discussed in this fascinating and enlightening account of the extremely important frontiers of neurophysiology, and psychology, cybernectics and medicine. The author (a journalist and an engineer) visited many laboratories even participated in many experiments - that is why he is so successful in conveying the atmosphere of scientific search and adventure. The book will appeal to the general reader and non-specialist researcher. From the foreword The author of this book is a journalist and an engineer. The book itself is a result of tive years of fruitful cooperation between the author and the investigators of the Vision Physiology Laboratory at the I.P. Pavlov Physiology Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences at Koltushi, near Leningrad. During this time the author has kept a keen eye on the advances of the

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