To address the fundamental question of “what are the primitives of visual perception”, a
theory of topological structure and functional hierarchy in visual perception has been …

Our first review article (Wagemans et al., 2012) on the occasion of the centennial
anniversary of Gestalt psychology focused on perceptual grouping and figure–ground …

This chapter first reviews some of the phenomena behind the Gestalt theorists' attempt to
replace the mainstream approach to visual cognition; why the replacement itself failed to …

Gestalt principles, or gestalt laws, are rules of the organization of perceptual scenes. When
we look at the world, we usually perceive complex scenes composed of many groups of …

The geometric Gestalt theory started in 1921 with Max Wertheimer's founding paper [31]. In
its 1975 last edition, the Gestalt Bible Gesetze des Sehens by Wolfgang Metzger [22] gave a …

The problem of representing the spatial structure of images, which arises in visual object
processing, is commonly described using terminology borrowed from propositional theories …

Perceptual organization comprises a wide range of processes such as perceptual grouping,
figure-ground organization, filling-in, completion, perceptual switching, etc. Such processes …

We present select examples of how visual phenomena can serve as tools to uncoverbrain
mechanisms. Specifically, receptive field organization is proposed as a Gestalt-like neural …

A principle of perceptual organization, called uniform connectedness (UC), is described, and
a theoretical approach to perceptual organization is proposed in which this principle plays a …

Abstract In 1912, Max Wertheimer published his paper on phi motion, widely recognized as
the start of Gestalt psychology. Because of its continued relevance in modern psychology …