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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:26:15 EST
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- Subject: RE: Gestalt
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- ..I'd advise picking up one of the introductory level texts in sensation/
- perception (a reasonable example is _Sensation and Perception_, by Matlin
- and Foley), reading the sections on Gestalt psychology/perception, and
- following up the references there.
-
- This is a curious topic, I think. There are tons of references from the
- 1930's and '40's, then an apparent gap of about 35-40 years, and a new
- series from the 1980's. There's probably a really good historical
- research project in there somewhere.
-
- On another slant, every intro psych textbook devotes a couple of pages to
- the traditional Gestalt "laws of organization" demonstrations, with
- typically little discussion of more current applications/explanations of
- those principles. Why is this? "Face validity," because they are so
- easily presented on the printed page and so reliably seen by essentially
- any observer?
-
- Pat Cabe
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