Abstract reviews current work which provides empirical measures of many of the original
Gestalt demonstrations of visual perception/[relates] the Gestalt idea of perceptual wholes …

In the 1920s Max Wertheimer enunciated a credo of Gestalt theory: the properties of any of
the parts are governed by the structural laws of the whole. Intense efforts at the time to …

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 …

Publisher Summary The problems of perceptual organization comprise various examples of
the general fact that one cannot predict how subjects will respond to patterns of stimulation …

The human visual system seems to determine the apparent brightness of an object mainly
by measuring the physical contrast near the border of the object and its background (see …

The principal rival to empiricist theory has come from Gestalt psychology, an early twentieth-
century movement that attempted to explain perception in terms of the intrinsic …

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 …

In 1923, Max Wertheimer proposed a research programme and method in visual perception.
He conjectured the existence of a small set of geometric grouping laws governing the …

Abstract Latimer & Stevens (1997) develop a useful framework for discussing issues
surrounding the definition and explanation of perceptual gestalts. They use this framework to …

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 …