1st Edition

Perception Beyond Gestalt Progress in vision research

Edited By Adam Geremek, Mark Greenlee, Svein Magnussen Copyright 2014
236 Pages
by Psychology Press

236 Pages
by Psychology Press

232 Pages
by Psychology Press

How does the brain piece together the information required to achieve object recognition, figure-ground segmentation, object completion in cases of partial occlusion and related perceptual phenomena? This book focuses on principles of Gestalt psychology and the key issues which surround them, providing an up-to-date survey of the most interesting and highly debated topics in visual... Read more

Perception Beyond Gestalt: Introductory Remarks Geremek, Greenlee and Magnussen  Part I: Gestalt and Perceptual Organization  How much of Gestalt Theory has Survived a Century of Neuroscience? Wagemans  Perceptive Fields and Receptive Fields Thomas  Spatiotemporal Unity of Perception: Given or Derived? Breitmeyer What is a Perceptual Object? Beyond the Gestalt Theory of Perceptual Organization Pinna  Self-organizing Properties of the Visual Field: Gestalt Forces in Action Harvey Jr and Schmidt  Part II: Attention, Aftereffects and Illusions  Attention, Grouping, and Non-Retinotopic Representations Öğmen and Herzog  Probing Human Vision with Spatial Adaptation Greenlee and Magnussen  From Hermann's Grid to Spillmann's Weaves Hamburger, Dixon and Shapiro  Motion Illusions as a Psychophysical Tool to Investigate the Visual System Gori and Stubs  Part III: Color Vision and Art Perception  In Search of Neurophysiological Correlates to Color Perception Valberg  Color and Figure-Ground: From Signals to Qualia Dresp-Langley and Reeves  Chromatic Assimilation in Visual Art and Perception Devink, Pinna and Werner  The Phenomenon of 'Colored Shadows' Kallman, Schramme and Neumeyer

Biography

Adam Geremek received his PhD at the Brain Research Unit, Freiburg, and is now a paediatrician specialising in child psychiatry in Schleswig, Germany.

Mark Greenlee is Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

Svein Magnussen is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway.

'I highly recommend Perception beyond Gestalt to everyone interested in the current progress of visual perception research. Gestalt research aiming at visual observations and empirical research of the brain as a whole will go on.' - Riccardo Luccio, Trieste, Gestalt Theory, Vol. 37, No.1