OVERVIEW Gestalt therapy was founded by Frederick “Fritz” Perls and collaborators Laura Perls and Paul Goodman. They synthesized various cultural and intellectual trends of the 1940s and 1950s into a new gestalt, one that provided a sophisticated clinical and theoretical alternative to the two other main theories of their day: behaviorism and classical psychoanalysis. Gestalt therapy began as a...

BACKGROUND The authors performed a long term outcome analysis of minimal brain damage in children delivered in breech presentation, and related the results to the mode of delivery (vaginal or by cesarean section). MATERIAL/METHODS In the Department of Obstetrics at the Medical University of Gdansk (Poland), 917 breech deliveries took place between 1981 and 1990. Excluding stillbirths and mult...

The inherent complexity and ambiguity of scene properties renders vision extremely difficult without taking advantage of the statistical regularities of natural images. The most basic forms of these image regularities are captured by the Gestalt laws of perceptual organization [5, 15, 21]. This paper reports two versions of a multiscale and multiorientation artificial recognition system in whic...

13 An 80 mm long polarizing S-bender with a large cross section of 30 mm x 100 mm for the 14 instrument MIRA at the FRM II has been simulated, built and tested. The results of the 15 experiment show for the wavelength of 4.4 Å a homogenous polarization of more than 98% 16 across the bender cross section and a high transmission of above 65% of the spin up 17 component of the neutron beam. The be...

The visual system leverages organizational regularities of perceptual elements to create meaningful representations of the world. One clear example of such function, which has been formalized in the Gestalt psychology principles, is the perceptual grouping of simple visual elements (e.g., lines and arcs) into unitary objects (e.g., forms and shapes). The present study sought to characterize aut...

Bimanual coordination, a prototype of a complex motor skill, has recently become the subject of intensive investigation. Whereas past research focused mainly on the identification of the elementary coordination constraints that limit performance, the focus is now shifting towards overcoming these coordination constraints by means of task symbolization or perceptual transformation rules that pro...