Samenvatting
The article describes a formal coding language for two- and three- dimensional shapes and auditory patterns. The coding allows the derivation of measures of information for both shapes and auditory patterns, as well as measures of preferred dimensionally, hierarchy, and substructures order for shapes-measures that rather successfully predict the corresponding perceptual phenomena. A theory of the origin of the units of information that are independently processed in the human perception of visual and auditory patterns is proposed.