The paper begins by focusing the basic idea that Gestalt phenomena belong not only to the realm of perception but to the realm of inference. It is shown that Gestalt effects (i.e. the derivability of incompatible indifferent conclusions on the basis of the same background information) often occur both in counterfactual and in ampliative – i.e. inductive and abductive – reasoning. The main thesi...

Games are a popular form of digital entertainment and one elusive question is how complex visual designs affect the player experience. We address one aspect of this topic in terms of similarity of visual features, explored both as an organizing principle in Gestalt psychology and as a theory in visual attention. To address this issue, we developed a 3D railed shooter game with adjustable visual...

abstract cognizing environment in human vision-system is complex process. part of this process is perceiving image elements and attention signals in general. in the other hand, extracting special description from image elements. it is assumed that the environment scene is a kind of image. according to this description, it is justifiable to interpret image according to the gestalt theory princip...

In writing about the present status of Gestalt psychology in Italy, a reference to the picture of it recently published by Ian VERSTEGEN (2000) is a ‘must’. He concludes his paper with the statement: “Psychology in Italy by the 1990s had been completely internationalised and ‘Americanized’. There is no fourth generation of Italian Gestalt psychology of which we may speak”. It is my impression t...

Baingio Pinna’s article “New Gestalt principles of perceptual organization: An extension from grouping to shape and meaning” won the 2009 Metzger Award of the Society for Gestalt !eory and its Applications. In this article, Pinna presented a variety of novel images that probe the way in which local and global factors interact to generate the percepts that we consciously see. As Pinna noted at t...

This letter presents a mathematical model of figure-ground articulation that takes into account both local and global gestalt laws and is compatible with the functional architecture of the primary visual cortex (V1). The local gestalt law of good continuation is described by means of suitable connectivity kernels that are derived from Lie group theory and quantitatively compared with long-range...

The purpose of this study was to compare adolescents' response pattern on specific visual tasks during acute and recovered states of depression. Twenty-three inpatient adolescents with unipolar depression were tested before and four weeks after treatment. Twenty control subjects matched in age, sex, handedness, and intelligence were tested at similar intervals. Measures included four visual spa...

This paper discusses the notion that presence may be considered as a selection mechanism that organizes the stream of sensory data into an environmental gestalt or perceptual hypothesis about current environment. A particular environmental gestalt results in scan-sensing of the world in a particular pattern reminiscent of saccades and fixations in eye scan paths. The environment hypothesis is c...

Previous studies have presented well-ordered collaboration structures of co-author pairs. Kretschmer and Kretschmer have shown that, for high impact SCI journals, the distributions of co-author pairs' frequencies can be considered to be a reflection of a social Gestalt. This study is an extension of that work to the social sciences, namely eleven journals in women's and gender studies. After ov...

Background: Bender Gestalt Test is one of the most famous neuropsychological tests, simple and easy to perform, and is used to evaluate brain injuries. This study aimed at determining the rate of sensitivity, characteristic and cut-off point of this test in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Methods and Materials: Overall, 120 TBI patients with mean age of 31.25± 13.60 years old in...