Gestalt Issues in Modern Neuroscience
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WALTER H. EHRENSTEIN, LOTHAR SPILLMANN and VIKTOR SARRIS GESTALT ISSUES IN MODERN NEUROSCIENCE
We present select examples of how visual phenomena can serve as tools to uncover brain mechanisms. Specifically, receptive field organization is proposed as a Gestalt-like neural mechanism of perceptual organization. Appropriate phenomena, such as brightness and orientation contrast, subjective contours, filling-in, and aperture-viewed motion, allow for a quantitative comparison between recepti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Axiomathes
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1122-1151
DOI: 10.1023/b:axio.0000007203.44686.aa