Gestalt Theory Rearranged: Back to Wertheimer
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Wertheimer's seminal paper of 1923 was of gerat influence in psychology and other sciences. Wertheimer also emphasized the weaknesses of the newborn Gestalt theory: too many basic laws, and the ambiguity of definitions.
Shelia Guberman
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Unsupervised image saliency detection with Gestalt-laws guided optimization and visual attention based refinement [PDF]
Pattern Recognition, 2018 Visual attention is a kind of fundamental cognitive capability that allows human beings to focus on the region of interests (ROIs) under complex natural environments. What kind of ROIs that we pay attention to mainly depends on two distinct types of attentional mechanisms.
Yan, Yijun +8 more
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Grouping in object recognition: The role of a Gestalt law in letter identification [PDF]
Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2009 The Gestalt psychologists reported a set of laws describing how vision groups elements to recognize objects. The Gestalt laws "prescribe for us what we are to recognize 'as one thing'" (Kohler, 1920). Were they right? Does object recognition involve grouping?
Pelli, Denis G. +5 more
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Ecological statistics of Gestalt laws for the perceptual organization of contours
Journal of Vision, 2002 Although numerous studies have measured the strength of visual grouping cues for controlled psychophysical stimuli, little is known about the statistical utility of these various cues for natural images. In this study, we conducted experiments in which human participants trace perceived contours in natural images.
James H, Elder, Richard M, Goldberg
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Investigation of Tactile Illusion Based on Gestalt Theory
Philosophies, 2021 Time-evolving tactile sensations are important in communication between animals as well as humans. In recent years, this research area has been defined as “tactileology,” and various studies have been conducted.
Hiraku Komura +2 more
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Explaining the Psychological Approach to Visual Perception in the Qur'anic Version of the Qajar Religion, Central Library of Tabriz, Registration No. 3089 (Case Study: An Analysis of the Four Pregnancy Gestalt Laws) [PDF]
کتابداری و اطلاعرسانی, 2022 Objective: This study, while studying the process of visual perception and familiarity with Pergnans' laws, introduces and explains the main features of the Qajar Quranic religious version preserved in the archives of Tabriz Central Library under ...
farnoosh shamili, fatemeh ghafoorifar
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Gestalt, Animation, and the Culture of Design
Cinéma & Cie, 2022 This article explores the affinities between animation practice and experiments in perception by Gestalt psychologists. By drawing out a Gestalt style of seeing — a sensitivity to the visual forces that scaffold an image — we can better describe ...
Ryan Pierson
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SEARCHING REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES FOR MEANINGFUL NESTED GESTALTEN [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2016 Even non-expert human observers sometimes still outperform automatic extraction of man-made objects from remotely sensed data. We conjecture that some of this remarkable capability can be explained by Gestalt mechanisms.
E. Michaelsen, D. Muench, M. Arens
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A Reading of the Image of Miraj of the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) by Sultan Mohammad based on the Principles of the Visual Perception of Gestalt [PDF]
نگره, 2020 The Miraj (Night journey) of the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) is one of the subjects depicted by various painters in various historical-cultural periods, and it can be said that the most popular religious themes in the field of Islamic painting are always ...
salimeh babakhan, behnam kamrani
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A Visual Study on the Figures of the "Kava Tears Zahhak's Scroll" Painting from Tahmasp Shahnama, According to Gestalt Theory [PDF]
نگره, 2018 The school of Gestalt psychology is among the most important schools of psychology in the early decades of Twentieth century that due to territory development and its relation with The process of visual perception, art field has profited from its effects.
Abbas Izadi
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