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 …

Traditional explanations of multistable visual phenomena (eg ambiguous figures, perceptual
rivalry) suggest that the basis for spontaneous reversals in perception lies in antagonistic …

Now available in paperback for the first time, this classic work presents a cognitive-semiotic
framework for understanding how maps work as powerful, abstract, and synthetic spatial …

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 …

On Burge's view, every percept is constituted by a" perceptual attribu tive"(that represents an
attribute) and a singular element (that represents an individual). The format of a percept is …

A fundamental task of vision is to group the image elements that belong to one object and to
segregate them from other objects and the background. This review provides a conceptual …

Research favoring the so-called bottom-up and top-down classes of explanations for
reversible figures that dominated the literature in last half of the 20th century is reviewed …

Our visual system segments images into objects and background. Figure-ground
segregation relies on the detection of feature discontinuities that signal boundaries between …

The structure of the human form is quickly and unequivocably recognized from 10 to 13
points of light moving as if attached to the major joints and head of a person walking Recent …

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 …