Presented as a series of lectures, this important volume achieves four major goals: 1) It
integrates the results of the author's research as applied to pattern perception--reviewing …

Pattern-contingent color aftereffects, or McCollough effects (MEs), are used to probe the
visual brain's operations psychophysically. Their neural substrate is unknown, however, and …

A través del análisis de numerosas obras de arte, Arnheim trata de establecer qué es lo que
determina la organización general de la forma visual en pinturas, esculturas y obras …

What is the nature of information; what enables it to inform our perceptual systems?
Psychology, particularly in its study of information processing, aspires to an answer; but …

Originally published in 1987, this book, attempted to bring together work by researchers
concerned with the functional and neurological mechanisms underlying visual object …

Observers searched for a horizontal line segment through displays containing varying
numbers of elements differing from the target and from each other in terms of orientation …

Examined the influence of spatial frequency on perceptual organization in 3 experiments
with 46 undergraduates with normal or corrected-to-normal vision. In each experiment a …

Discusses an appropriate theoretical structure for the gestalt principles of visual form
perception that is consistent with anatomical and neurophysiological knowledge and builds …

Abstract “Before the connection of thought and brain can be explained, it must be stated in
elementary form; and there are great difficulties about stating it.… Many would find relief at …

This article reviews a number of approaches that perceptual psychologists have taken in
attempting to understand 2-dimensional (2-D) shape recognition. Various strands in the …