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Although it may be
intuitively understandable that
disorientation and black-white
reversal interfere with
spontaneous recognition in
this example, it is by no means
easy to explain why they
should do so. After all, because
we are viewing a two-
dimensional object in the
frontal plane, the correct
outline of Europe is present on
the retina. Nevertheless, the
correct shape is not initially
perceived, and for this reason
it is not recognized.
The image that appears on the
retina is simply an optical
matter, merely the beginning of
a chain of events that leads to a
percept and, generally, to
recognition of the thing
perceived. In order for us to
perceive a world of
differentiated shapes, some
internal process must
construct them from the neural
energy that emanates from the
millions of rods and cones in
the retina and that is
transmitted along the hundreds
of thousands of fibers in the
optic nerve. In this chapter, I
will explore what principles
the mind uses to impose an
organization on the mosaic of
visual stimuli and what role
experience plays in the
perception of shape.