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Laws of Seeing

Laws of Seeing

Metzger, Wolfgang
Spillmann, Lothar

Paperback

Medical ReferenceGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0262513366
ISBN13: 9780262513364
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
The first English translation of a classic work in vision science from 1936 by a leading figure in the Gestalt movement, covering topics that continue to be major issues in vision research today.

This classic work in vision science, written by a leading figure in Germany's Gestalt movement in psychology and first published in 1936, addresses topics that remain of major interest to vision researchers today. Wolfgang Metzger's main argument, drawn from Gestalt theory, is that the objects we perceive in visual experience are not the objects themselves but perceptual effigies of those objects constructed by our brain according to natural rules. Gestalt concepts are currently being increasingly integrated into mainstream neuroscience by researchers proposing network processing beyond the classical receptive field. Metzger's discussion of such topics as ambiguous figures, hidden forms, camouflage, shadows and depth, and three-dimensional representations in paintings will interest anyone working in the field of vision and perception, including psychologists, biologists, neurophysiologists, and researchers in computational vision--and artists, designers, and philosophers.

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