Gestalt Theory

This book is intended as a Festschrift on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Lothar Spillmann, eminent visual experimentalist in the tradition of Gestalt psychology, who has done influential work in integrating phenomenological, psychophysical, and neurophysiological findings in his quest for a Neo-Gestalt neuroscience. Spillmann’s laboratory has attracted a large number of psychophysicists and experimental psychologists from some of the finest universities, who came to Freiburg during the years from 1971 – 2005, and their work has enhanced our knowledge of visual perception. The book reflects the depth and breadth of the approach chosen by his laboratory, namely the emphasis on the neurophysiological correlations of visual perception.