Hugh J. Foley received his BA from St. John Fisher College (1971) and his PhD in Experimental Psychology from Stony Brook University (1985). He taught at Union College and Skidmore College, from which he retired in 2015. He has broad interests in perception, with a focus on psychophysics and object perception.

Mary Bates is a science writer based outside Boston, MA. She specializes in writing about the brains and behavior of humans and other animals. She completed her PhD in psychology at Brown University, where she studied bat echolocation.