On perceived motion and figural organization / Max Wertheimer ; edited by Lothar Spillmann ; with contributions by Michael Wertheimer ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wertheimer, Max, 1880-1943.

Contributor:

Spillmann, Lothar.

Wertheimer, Michael.

Standardized Title:

Selections. English. 2012

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perception.

Movement, Psychology of.

Gestalt psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Two seminal articles by a founder of the Gestalt school of psychology, newly translated and accompanied by essays that connect his work to current research.

Contents:

Experimental studies on seeing motion by Max Wertheimer (1912) / translation by Michael Wertheimer and K.W. Watkins

Synopsis of Max Wertheimer's 1912 Article / by Viktor Sarris

Motion perception : a modern view of Wertheimer's 1912 monograph / by Robert Sekuler

Investigations on gestalt principles. II / by Max Wertheimer (1923) ; translation by Michael Wertheimer and K.W. Watkins

Synopsis of Max Wertheimer's 1923 Article / by Viktor Sarris

The current status of gestalt rules in perceptual research : psychophysics and neurophysiology / by Lothar Spillmann

Epilogue : Max Wertheimer in Frankfurt, and thereafter / by Viktor Sarris.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

"This work by and about Max Wertheimer collects together new translations of his two most important articles and places them in both historical and contemporary contexts with the addition of essays by Michael Wertheimer ... [et al.]"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-52371-X

9786613836168

0-262-30568-2

OCLC:

804850527

Publisher Number:

9786613836168