Review of The Task of Gestalt Psychology.

AbstractThis comparative study of the religious life of the Jewish communities of Kaifeng, China, and Cochin, India, contributes to our understanding the mechanisms by which a religion becomes acculturated into its environment. Borrowing the metaphor of foregrounding/backgrounding from Gestalt psychology, both the plasticity and tenacity of Judaism are emphasized.

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Resemblance and Gestalt Psychology

Analysis ◽

10.1093/analys/24.6.196 ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 24 (6) ◽

pp. 196-200

Author(s):

D. H. J. Warner

Keyword(s):

Gestalt Psychology

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An Early History of the Gestalt Factors of Organisation

Perception ◽

10.1068/p7122 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 148-167 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Stefano Vezzani ◽

Barbara F M Marino ◽

Enrico Giora

Keyword(s):

Vision Research ◽

Early History ◽

Gestalt Psychology ◽

Early Description ◽

History Of

Wertheimer's (1923, Psychologische Forschung 4 301–350) idea that the perceptual world is articulated according to factors of organisation is widely acknowledged as one of the most original contributions of Gestalt psychology and stands as a milestone in the history of vision research. An inquiry focused on the forerunners of some of Wertheimer's factors of perceptual organisation is documented here. In fact, in 1900 Schumann described grouping by proximity and by vertical symmetry, and in 1903 G E Müller identified the factors of sameness/similarity and contour. Other authors contributed to the early description of these factors, such as Rubin, who in 1922 originally illustrated grouping by similarity. Even though Wertheimer himself granted these authors due recognition, later psychologists have paid little attention to their contributions. Some possible reasons for this negligence are briefly discussed.

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Il filosofo e il cineasta. Una discussione sull'immagine cinematografica

PARADIGMI ◽

10.3280/para2009-003004 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 45-51

Author(s):

Mauro Carbone

Keyword(s):

Key Words ◽

Present Article ◽

Gestalt Psychology ◽

The Other ◽

Significant Feature ◽

Christian Metz ◽

Negative Judgement

- Image The present article focuses on two topics underlying the lecture given by Maurice Merleau-Ponty in 1945 at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques, in Paris. One is the reflection on the peculiarities of filmic expression and cinematic image; the other, the convergence between the inspiration of cinema and that of philosophy, which Merleau-Ponty sees as a significant feature of his time: a convergence which the cinema of the nouvelle vague was also to acknowledge and which Christian Metz was to confirm retrospectively. Moreover, in developing both topics, the author finds a way to interpret Merleau-Ponty's lecture as an undeclared polemical response to Henri Bergson's famous negative judgement on cinema.Key words: Cinematic Image, Gestalt Psychology, Melody, Montage, Perception, Rhythm.Parole chiave: Dinamica di legittimazione, Immagine, Identitŕ, Narrazione, Soggetto, Tempo.

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