Gestalt Theory’s Less Known Studies: Memory

This article is a sequel to “Gestalt Theory: Its Past, its Stranding, and Future..”. It focuses on what Gestalt theory proposed produced within the area of memory, which unfortunately are almost unknown. typically believed that about perception only. This, however, not true. The aim this bring daylight conceptual empirical contributions field memory. first part discusses some critical proposals memory processes in Kurt Koffka’s Principles (1936) book. These involve proposal involvement effects successive Gestalts; discussion similarities differences between percepts traces; reference research suggesting traces dynamic such depending their Prägnanz they will or change during storage; type can even be predicted cases. then review one most powerful studies framework, i. e., Hedwig von Restorff’s 1933 dissertation demonstrating how figure-ground at play only but also In final article, I present Erich Goldmeier’s very original interesting work, seemed utterly ignored by mainstream cognitive psychology. Keywords: theory, figure-ground, & traces, Koffka, Restorff, Goldmeier