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 a...

A clear distinction generally exists between processes of design generation and processes of design production. The profusion of digital fabrication tools and technologies make evident such distinctions in the context of design production but at the same time carry potential for material and fabrication-based processes promoting generative design methods. Such strategic application and customiz...

in this work firstly zno nanoparticles were synthesized via a simple precipitation method. at the second step titanium dioxide and silicon dioxide shell were synthesized on the core. for preparation zno-tio2-sio2 the sol product was calcinated at 500 ºc for 2h. properties of the product were examined by x-raydiffraction pattern (xrd), scanning electron microscope (sem) and fourier transform inf...

BACKGROUND Clinical probability assessment is combined with d-dimer testing to exclude pulmonary embolism (PE). PURPOSE To compare the test characteristics of gestalt (a physician's unstructured estimate) and clinical decision rules for evaluating adults with suspected PE and assess the failure rate of gestalt and rules when used in combination with d-dimer testing. DATA SOURCES Articles in...

In 1923, Max Wertheimer proposed a research programme and method in visual perception. He conjectured the existence of a small set of geometric grouping laws governing the perceptual synthesis of phenomenal objects, or "gestalt" from the atomic retina input. In this paper, we review this set of geometric grouping laws, using the works of Metzger, Kanizsa and their schools. In continuation, we e...

‎Let $Omega$ be a class of unital‎ ‎$C^*$-algebras‎. ‎We introduce the notion of a local tracial $Omega$-algebra‎. ‎Let $A$ be an $alpha$-simple unital local tracial $Omega$-algebra‎. ‎Suppose that $alpha:Gto $Aut($A$) is an action of a finite group $G$ on $A$‎ ‎which has a certain non-simple tracial Rokhlin property‎. ‎Then the crossed product algebra‎ ‎$C^*(G,A,alpha)$ is a unital local traci...

In the 1920s Max Wertheimer enunciated a credo of Gestalt theory: the properties of any of the parts are governed by the structural laws of the whole. Intense efforts at the time to discover these laws had only very limited success. Psychology was in the grips of the Fechnerian tradition to seek exact relationships between the material and the mental and, because the Gestalt movement could not ...

The Gestalt school of psychological thought originated in Germany early in the 20 th century (for a comprehensive review, see Koffka, 1935). It is best known for its theoretical and empirical contributions to understanding the organization of perceptual experience, including the nature of perceived groups, objects, parts, properties, and the relations among them, but was extended to address iss...