I'm going to talk today about some current attempts to analyze the structure of visually
perceived form, and to identify those components of perceptual processing that mediate the …

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 …

A fundamental issue in human perception is to determine how different stimulus dimensions
interact during perceptual processing (eg, Ashby & Townsend, 1986; Garner, 1970, 1974) …

GLOMOsys (the global vs. local processing model, a systems account) includes predictions
about cognitive mechanisms (the how) and functionalities (the why) of two processing …

The last few years have seen a great increase in the popularity of organizational
approaches to the study of perception, more or less explicitly indebted to Gestalt theory, and …

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 …

If two sensory modalities conflict with one another, for example, when viewing the hand
through a prism, each will influence the other to a greater or lesser extent. Both cognitive …