In the present chapter we shall deal with the birth of the theory of Gestalt, and particularly with the essay “On ‘Gestalt Qualities’” by Christian von Ehrenfels, published in 1890. It will become clear in the course of this chapter that the Gestalt psychologists of the Berlin school, above all Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka, were part of a wider Gestalt tradition whose roots l...

Gestalt factors such as the principles of closure, nearest neighborhood (proximity), good continuation, and common fate, are widely regarded as being tailored and well-suited for guiding the perception of spatial and temporal patterns. In this view, Gestalt factors are rules that the brain uses for reducing the overwhelming complexity of the perceptual world. Or, speaking in terms of informatio...

Multi-sensory displays try to take advantage of a range of human senses, for example, displaying information visually and also with sound and haptic feedback. Designing multi-sensory displays is complex and needs to carefully consider human perceptual capabilities. Developing guidelines to support designers of multi-sensory displays is an important way to capture and communicate existing knowle...

Este artículo presenta algunos de los resultados la investigación Apreciación vivencia corporal en danza hip hop desde conceptos terapia gestalt: un abordaje pragmático y contextualista realizada para optar por el título Psicóloga Universidad Santo Tomás. Las reflexiones que propone este trabajo tienen como objetivo resaltar importancia una mirada holística del ser humano todo cuerpo-mente, int...

The aim in this study was to analyze differences between children’s performances on the Bender – Sistema de Pontuação Gradual (B-SPG) [Gradual Scoring System] in the states of Minas Gerais and Paraíba, and to compare them with the results presented in the test manual. The participants were 511 children, both sexes, aged 6-10 years (M = 8.21, SD = 1.33), and 50.7% male. The children were from tw...

PURPOSE Online open educational resources are increasingly used in medical education, particularly blogs and podcasts. However, it is unclear whether these resources can be adequately appraised by end-users. Our goal was to determine whether gestalt-based recommendations are sufficient for emergency medicine trainees and attending physicians to reliably recommend online educational resources to...

One purpose of this study was to quantify, by means of single-format, multiple-choice questions at the beginning and end of the course, the extent to which first-year medical students learn neuroscience material from an introductory course in their curriculum. Compared with their precourse test performance (mean = 41.8%), collectively, the students nearly doubled their grade by the end of the c...