Summary: Roland Fleming & Bart Anderson: Perceptual Organization
of Depth 1 The Perceptual Organization of Depth Roland Fleming
and Bart Anderson Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
MIT Running Head: Perceptual Organization of Depth MIT Room
NE20-451, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139. Roland Fleming &
Bart Anderson: Perceptual Organization of Depth 2 The goal of
depth perception is to identify the spatial layout of the
objects and surfaces that constitute our surroundings. One
important observation about the world around us that influences
the way we see depth is that physical matter is not distributed
randomly, with arbitrary depths at every location. On the
contrary, the environment is generally organized: the world
consists mainly of tightly bound objects in a discernable
layout. This order results from countless forces and processes
in our world which tend to organize matter into objects and
place those objects in certain spatial relations. The