Charles Maurer is a freelance writer who specializes in science and technology.

Daphne Maurer is a Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour.

The Maurers are the authors of two previous groundbreaking books about perception: The World of the Newborn (1988), which received the Book Award of the American Psychological Association, and Pretty Ugly: Why We Like Some Songs, Faces, Foods, Plays, Pictures, Poems, Etc., and Dislike Others (2019).