Formal Models of Gestalt Perception

Remko Scha and Mehdi Dastani

Course at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Computational Linguistics, Spring 1995.

READINGS:

I. Gestalt Perception.

Max Wertheimer: "Laws of Organization in Peceptual Forms." [English Translation of: "Untersuchungen zur Lehre von der Gestalt", II, Psychologische Forschung 4 (1923), pp. 301 –350.] In: Willis D. Ellis (ed.): A Source Book of Gestalt Psychology. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

D.W. Hamlyn: "The Historical Background of Gestalt Psychology." Chapter 3 of The Psychology of Perception. A Philosophical Examination of Gestalt Theory and Derivative Theories of Perception. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

D.W. Hamlyn: "Gestalt Theory." Chapter 4 of The Psychology of Perception. A Philosophical Examination of Gestalt Theory and Derivative Theories of Perception. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Irvin Rock and Stephen Palmer: "The Legacy of Gestalt Psychology." Scientific American, December 1990, pp. 48 - 61.

John F. Stins and Cees van Leeuwen: "Context influence on the perception of figures as conditional upon perceptual organization strategies." Perception & Psychophysics 1993, 53 (1), pp. 34 – 42.


II. Coding Languages.

E.L.L. Leeuwenberg: "Quantitative Specification of Information in Sequential Patterns." Psychological Review, 1969, Vol. 76, No. 2, pp. 216 – 220.

Yann Orlarey, Dominique Fober, Stéphane Letz and Mark Bilton: "Lambda Calculus and Music Calculi." ICMC Proceedings 1994, pp. 243 – 250.


III. Formal Models.

P.A. van der Helm and E.L.J. Leeuwenberg: "Avoiding Explosive Search in Automatic Selection of Simplest Pattern Codes." Pattern Recognition 19 (1986), pp. 181–191.

P.A. van der Helm and E.L.J. Leeuwenberg: On Symmetry, Group Theory, and Holographic Regularity. Ms., NICI, University of Nijmegen.

Peter A. van der Helm: "The Dynamics of Prägnanz." Psychological Research 56 (1994), pp. 224–236.

Cees van Leeuwen, Hans Buffart and Jantien van der Vegt: "Sequence Influence on the Organization of Meaningless Serial Stimuli: Economy After All." Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance, 14 (1988), no. 3, pp. 481–502.