This paper will discuss whether there are chances for a paradigm shift, ie, a shift away from
the (almost without much thought) taken-for-granted sequential, from piece-to-whole …

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 …

The Gestalt approach to psychology represents an early but comprehensive and systematic
attempt to relate psychological and neural functioning. When the approach was rst …

Gestalt theory, one of the major “schools” of psychology during the first half of the twentieth
century, recently returned to prominence because of the enormous relevance to current …

Originally published in 1981, perceptual organization had been synonymous with Gestalt
psychology, and Gestalt psychology had fallen into disrepute. In the heyday of Behaviorism …

Our present understanding of perceptual organization has its roots in the observations and
qualitative principles of the Gestalt psychologists. Gestaltists and their associates identified …

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 …

The emergence of Gestalt psychology is richly documented (eg, Boring, 1950; Henle, 1980;
Hochberg, 1979; Wertheimer, 1974). Its refutations of atomism, associationism, and …

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 …