Gestalt Theory
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Perceptual organization in infancy: bottom-up and top-down influences.

30 May 2009 A program of research on the origins and development of perceptual organization during infancy is reviewed. The data suggest that infant perception of visual pattern information is guided by adherence to a number of bottom-up, stimulus-based ... Read more...

Spatial grouping determines temporal integration.

30 May 2009 To make sense out of a continuously changing visual world, people need to integrate features across space and time. Despite more than a century of research, the mechanisms of features integration are still a matter of debate. To examine how temporal ... Read more...

Influence of peripheral and motivational cues on rigid-flexible functioning: Perceptual, behavioral, and cognitive aspects.

29 Apr 2009 Recent research has shown that performing approach versus avoidance behaviors (arm flexion vs. extension) effectively influences cognitive functioning. In another area, lateralized peripheral activations (left vs. right side) of the motivational ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Gestalt Theory'

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• Perceptual organization in infancy: bottom-up and top-down influences. 30 May 2009
• Spatial grouping determines temporal integration. 30 May 2009
• Influence of peripheral and motivational cues on rigid-flexible functioning: Perceptual, behavioral, and cognitive aspects. 29 Apr 2009
• VIDAS D-dimer in combination with clinical pre-test probability to rule out pulmonary embolism. A systematic review of management outcome studies. 29 Apr 2009
• Relations between perceptual and conceptual scope: how global versus local processing fits a focus on similarity versus dissimilarity. 30 Jan 2009
• From perception to art: how vision creates meanings. 30 Dec 2008
• Reflections on the main schools of the world psychology in the Czech interwar psychology. 30 Oct 2008
• [Achromatic watercolor effect: about requirement of formation of sumi painting effect] 29 Sep 2008
• Object-based attention in Chinese readers of Chinese words: beyond Gestalt principles. 29 Sep 2008
• Gestalt: radiology's aunt Minnie. 29 Sep 2008
• The emergence of dynamic form through phase relations in dynamical systems. 29 Sep 2008
• That 'gut feeling'. 30 Jul 2008
• Altered perception of apparent motion in schizophrenia spectrum disorder. 6 May 2008
• Gestalt theory: implications for radiology education. 29 Apr 2008
• The effect of global versus local processing styles on assimilation versus contrast in social judgment. 30 Mar 2008
• Assessing the influence of gestalt-type characteristics on preferences over lifetime health profiles. 29 Mar 2008
• Revisiting Wittgenstein on Köhler and Gestalt psychology. 30 Dec 2007
• The good clinical nursing educator and the baccalaureate nursing clinical experience: attributes and praxis. 30 Dec 2007
• Eccentric grouping by proximity in multistable dot lattices. 19 Dec 2007
• Understanding phylogenies in biology: the influence of a Gestalt Perceptual Principle. 29 Nov 2007

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Technical information about 'Gestalt Theory'

Definition: A system which emphasizes that experience and behavior contain basic patterns and relationships which cannot be reduced to simpler components; that is, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Descriptor UI: D005863

Alternative terms: Gestalt Theory; Gestalt Theories; Theories, Gestalt; Theory, Gestalt;

Allowable Qualifiers: history;

Tree Number: F02.739.527;

Online Note: search PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY 1969-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY 1975-90