A Prolific Perceptual Theory

Reviews the book, Perceptual Development: An Investigation within the Framework of Sensory-Tonic Field Theory by Seymour Wapner and Heinz Werner (see record 1958-00119-000). The authors of this interesting book are the foremost protagonists of the sensory-tonic field theory of perception. In the present volume, the authors have taken a hypothesis from developmental psychology, namely, that there is an increasing differentiation with age between the self (body) and the environment (object), and have combined this thesis with their sensory-tonic one as a jumping-off place for the eleven experiments that comprise the bulk of the book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)