UC Berkeley

Listen to music, and you can feel a beat under the sounds. But you can feel it differently, while hearing the sounds as otherwise alike. Heard each way, the music sounds different. But there is no difference in what seems to happen around you. Instead, you perceive the same events in different ways. What are these ways of perceiving? And how do they affect how things appear? I develop a view that answers these questions, and explain how the view resolves longstanding problems about temporal, spatial, and color perception.