Van Leeuwen (2007) Towards an Interdisciplinary Science of Visual Gestalten

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CONTRIBUTORS:

Author:

Van Leeuwen, Cees (RIKEN Brain Science Institute)

JOURNAL:

Gestalt Theory - An International Multidisciplinary Journal, 29(3), 213 - 222.

YEAR:

2007

PUB TYPE:

Journal Article

SUBJECT(S):

perception research, vision, Gestalt psychology, Gestalt theory

DISCIPLINE:

Psychology

HTTP:

http://gestalttheory.net/gth/

LANGUAGE:

English

PUB ID:

103-437-898 (Last edited on 2007/11/08 10:35:29 US/Mountain)

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ABSTRACT:
The study of visual Gestalten can be defined broadly as all activity that seeks an answer to Koffka’s famous question: “Why do things look as they do?” Within this larger framework a more narrowly defined scientific project is possible, aimed at the mechanisms of visual experience, and thus asking the question: “How do the things look as they do?” This project is providing an interface between phenomenology and neuroscience, which renders it uniquely positioned to counter more or less naļve misconceptions about our phenomenology with empirical evidence, and confront psychology and the neurosciences with the primacy of holistic features in perceptual awareness. The implications of this project are illustrated with an earlier-published experimental study, involving the perceptual aspects of developmental dyslexia.

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