The book emphasizes "experience-dependent" neural plasticity—the idea that the brain's visual circuits must be "tuned" by environmental stimuli during early development to function correctly.
The volume opens by tracing visual science from the ancient Greeks to the early 20th century, highlighting the evolution of our understanding of perspective and stereoscopic vision. Perceiving in Depth Volume 1 Basic Mechanisms
A significant portion of the work is dedicated to the anatomy and physiology of the primate visual system. which is specialized for depth-related processing.
The text follows the visual signal from the eye through the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN) to the visual cortex. It pays specific attention to the columnar organization of the cortex, which is specialized for depth-related processing. Perceiving in Depth Volume 1 Basic Mechanisms