| Autor: |
Spillmann L; Department of Neurology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.; lothar.spillmann@zfn-brain.uni-freiburg.de., Hsu LC; China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.; lchsu@mail.cmu.edu.tw., Wang W; Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.; w.wang@ion.ac.cn., Chen CC; Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.; c3chen@ntu.edu.tw., Yeh CI; Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.; ciyeh@ntu.edu.tw., Tseng CH; Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Interdisciplinary ICT Research Center for Cyber and Real Spaces, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.; ch_tseng@alumni.uci.edu. |
| Abstrakt: |
Gestalten in visual perception are defined by emergent properties of the whole, which cannot be predicted from the sum of its parts; rather, they arise by virtue of inherent principles, the Laws of Seeing. This review attempts to assign neurophysiological correlates to select emergent properties in motion and contour perception and proposes parallels to the processing of local versus global attributes by classical versus contextual receptive fields. The aim is to identify Gestalt neurons in the visual system to account for the Laws of Seeing in causal terms and to explain "Why do things look as they do" (Koffka, 1935, p. 76). |
