Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Vision and Information -- I Time and Dynamics -- 2 Riddle of the Past, Puzzle for the Future -- 3 Extending Prägnanz -- 4 Informing through an Imperfect Retina -- 5 Perceptual Organization in the Visual Cortex -- II Color, Shape, and Space -- 6 The Perception of Material Qualities and the Internal Semantics of the Perceptual System -- 7 Visual Information in Surface and Depth Perception -- 8 Good Continuation in Layers -- 9 Illusory Contours and Neon Color Spreading Reconsidered in the Light of Petter's Rule -- III Language and Perception -- 10 From Grouping to Visual Meanings -- 11 The Perceptual Roots of Metaphor -- IV Perception in Art, Design, and Computation -- 12 Becoming Information -- 13 Becoming -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Insert.