Incompatibility of image descriptor and ranking is always neglected in image retrieval. In this paper, manifold learning and Gestalt psychology theory are involved to solve the incompatibility problem. A new holistic descriptor called Perceptual Uniform Descriptor (PUD) based on Gestalt psychology is proposed, which combines color and gradient direction to imitate the human visual uniformity. P...

Drama therapy, like other creative arts therapies, has attracted a number of different conceptual frameworks which have been used to organize complex clinical material and to provide theoretical coherence to relatively uncharted psychological territory. These frameworks, nearly all imported from outside the creative arts themselves, include psychoanalytic theory, gestalt therapy, developmental ...

I am an emeritus professor of theoretical psychology at the University Portsmouth. was introduced to Gestalt Psychology as a student back in 1960s. My professor, Tim Miles, knew Michotte and had translated his book on Causality. once showed us Michotte’s remarkable displays perceived causality animal movement based simplest equipment. liked way that demonstrations can themselves play important ...

Infants acquire spoken language through hearing and imitating utterances mainly from their parents [1,2,3] but never imitate their parents’ voices as they are. What in the voices do the infants imitate? Due to poor phonological awareness, it is difficult for them to decode an input utterance into a string of small linguistic units like phonemes [3,4,5,6], so it is also difficult for them to con...

This paper proposes a new framework of speech generation by imitating “infants’ vocal imitation”. Most of the speech synthesizers take a phoneme sequence as input and generate speech by converting each of the phonemes into a sound sequentially. In other words, they simulate a human process of reading text out. However, infants usually acquire speech generation ability without text or phoneme se...

OVERVIEW Gestalt therapy was founded by Frederick “Fritz” Perls and collaborators Laura Perls and Paul Goodman. They synthesized various cultural and intellectual trends of the 1940s and 1950s into a new gestalt, one that provided a sophisticated clinical and theoretical alternative to the two other main theories of their day: behaviorism and classical psychoanalysis. Gestalt therapy began as a...

In the late 19th century, the Gestalt Psychology rebelled against the popular new science of Psychophysics. The Gestalt revolution used many fascinating visual examples to illustrate that the whole is greater than the sum of all the parts. The physical interpretation of sensations and their quantification by JND’s and Weber fractions were met with innumerable examples in which two identical phy...

This paper describes a new and improved method for the framework of structure to speech conversion we previously proposed. Most of the speech synthesizers take a phoneme sequence as input and generate speech by converting each of the phonemes into its corresponding sound. In other words, they simulate a human process of reading text out. However, infants usually acquire speech communication abi...

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s relation to Gestalt Psychology is typically understood through the lens of his engagement with Wolfgang Köhler’s work. Though valuable, this framing may obscure certain broader points similarity between methodological approach and school considered as a whole. In what follows I pursue line thought by comparing discussion rule-following in Philosophical Investigations Max W...