Adam Geremek - Perception Beyond Gestalt: Progress in vision research

Perception Beyond Gestalt

How does the brain piece together the information required to achieve object recognition, figure-ground segmentation, object completion in cases of partial occlusion and related perceptual phenomena?

This book focuses on principles of Gestalt psychology and the key issues which surround them, providing an up-to-date survey of the most interesting and highly debated topics in visual neuroscience, perception and object recognition.

The volume is divided into three main parts: Gestalt and perceptual organization, attention aftereffects and illusions, and color vision and art perception. Themes covered in the book include:

• a historical review of Gestalt theory and its relevance in modern-day neuroscience
• the relationship between perceptive and receptive fields
• a critical analysis of spatiotemporal unity of perception
• the role of Gestalt principles in perceptual organization
• self-organizing properties of the visual field
• the role of attention and perceptual grouping in forming non-retinotopic representations
• figural distortions following adaptation to spatial patterns
• illusory changes of brightness in spatial patterns
• the function of motion illusions as a tool to study Gestalt principles in vision
• conflicting theories of color vision and the neural basis of it
• the role of color in figure-ground segmentation
• chromatic assimilation in visual art and perception
• the phenomena of colored shadows.

Including contributions from experts in the field, this book will provide an essential overview of current research and theory on visual perception and Gestalt. It will be key reading for researchers and academics in the field of visual perception and neuroscience.

Adam Geremek received his PhD at the Brain Research Unit, Freiburg, and is now a paediatrician specializing in child psychiatry in Schleswig, Germany.

Mark W. Greenlee is Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

Svein Magnussen is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Explorations in Cognitive Psychology series

Books in this series:

Perception Beyond Gestalt

Progress in vision research

Edited by Adam Geremek, Mark W. Greenlee and Svein Magnussen

Perception Beyond Gestalt

Progress in vision research

Edited by

Adam Geremek, Mark W. Greenlee and Svein Magnussen

First published 2014
by Psychology Press
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2014 A. Geremek, M. W. Greenlee and S. Magnussen

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Perception beyond Gestalt : progress in vision research / edited by
Adam Geremek, Mark Greenlee, and Svein Magnussen.

pages cm

Includes index.

1. Gestalt psychology. 2. Perception. I. Geremek, Adam editor of compilation. II. Greenlee, Mark editor of compilation. III. Magnussen, Svein editor of compilation.
BF203.P27 2014
153.7dc22 2013008418

ISBN: 9780415658010 (hbk)
ISBN: 9780203076323 (ebk)

In honor of
Prof. Lothar Spillmann
on the occasion of his 75th birthday

Prof. Bruno G. Breitmeyer

Director, Visual Cognition Lab

Department of Psychology

University of Houston

Houston, Texas 77204, USA

Frdric Devinck, PhD

Department of Psychology

University Rennes 2

CRPCC, EA 1285

35000 Rennes, France

Erica L. Dixon

Department of Psychology

College of Arts and Science

American University

4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Washington D.C. 20016, USA

Dr. Birgitta Dresp-Langley

Centre National de la Recherche

Scientifique UMR 5508

University of Montpellier, France

Dr. Adam Geremek

HELIOS Klinikum Schleswig

Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 5

24837 Schleswig, Germany

Simone Gori, PhD

Department of General Psychology

University of Padua

Via Venezia 8

35131 Padova, Italy

Prof. Mark W. Greenlee

Institute for Experimental Psychology

Faculty for Psychology, Educational und Sports Science

University of Regensburg

Universitsstrasse 31

93053 Regensburg, Germany

Dr. Kai Hamburger

Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science

Justus Liebig University Giessen

Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10F

35394 Giessen, Germany

Prof. Lewis O. Harvey, Jr.

Chair, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

University of Colorado, 345 UCB

Boulder, Colorado 80309-0345 USA

Prof. Michael H. Herzog

Head, Laboratory of Psychophysics

cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne

1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Dr. Julian Kallmann

Institute of Zoology

Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz

55128 Mainz, Germany

Prof. Svein Magnussen

Professor emeritus

Department of Psychology

University of Oslo

0371 Oslo, Norway

Prof. Christa Neumeyer

Institute of Zoology

Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz

55128 Mainz, Germany

Prof. Haluk men

Director, Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

N 308 Engineering Building 1

Houston, Texas 77204, USA

Prof. Baingio Pinna

Director, Department of Architecture, Design & Planning

University of Sassari at Alghero, Sardegna

Palazzo del Pou Salit, Piazza Duomo 6

07041 Alghero (SS), Italy

Prof. Adam Reeves

Psychology Department

Northeastern University

125 Nightingale Hall, 360 Huntington Ave.

Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA

Dr. Eric K. Schmidt, M.A., D.D.S.

Alameda Family Dentistry

2049 Central Avenue

Alameda, California 94501, USA

Dr. Jrgen Schramme

Institute of Zoology

Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz

55128 Mainz, Germany

Prof. Arthur G. Shapiro

Department of Psychology

College of Arts and Science

American University

4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Washington D.C. 20016, USA

Prof. Alan Stubbs

Department of Psychology

University of Maine