Cognitive and gestalt vision theories consider incompleteness to be a necessary and sufficient factor for inducing illusory figures. The role of incompleteness is studied herein by defining the inner logic subtended by use of the term "incompleteness", presenting new cases to clarify the phe­ nomenology of incompleteness as a necessary and sufficient condition, and suggesting an alternative hyp...

Lotka’s Law originally calculated only the frequencies of single or first authors. However, given the growth and popularity of scientific collaboration, the distribution of co-author pairs’ frequencies should also be considered. Based on the previous researchers’ results, this article will demonstrate that the distribution of co-author pairs’ frequencies can be reflected by a social gestalt and...

We propose a new approach for perceptual grouping of oriented segments in highly cluttered images based on tensor voting. Segments are represented as second-order tensors and communicate with each other through a voting scheme that incorporates the Gestalt principles of visual perception. An iterative scheme has been devised which removes noise segments in a conservative way using multi-scale a...

An Investigation of the Relationship Between the Bender-Gestalt, Draw-a-Man, and Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence by G. Edward Allen, Jr., Master of Science Utah State University, 1969 Major Professor: Glendon Casto Department: Psychology v This study investigated the relationship between the Bender-Gestalt, Draw-a-Man, and the Wexler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intellige...

Gestalt Algebra gives a formal structure suitable for describing complex patterns in the image plain. This can be useful for recognizing hidden structure in images. The work at hand refers to the laws of perceptual psychology. A manifold called the Gestalt Domain is defined. Next to the position in 2D it also contains an orientation and a scale component. Algebraic operations on it are given fo...

During the first part of the last century the Gestalt psychologists proposed that the dynamics evident in visual perception were attributable to ever-changing electrical potentials within topograpically organized brain fields (Kohler, 1920). Dynamic field theory, as it was called, was subsequently discredited on grounds that the brain does not comprise a field but, instead, a richly interconnec...

Wolfgang Köhler made the following remark in Gestalt Psychology [1929]: “The ways of real life do not coincide with those classification, and if, by abstraction, we unite members one class, very probably cut live bonds dynamical reality at same time. Perhaps, most interesting forms context occur between altogether different classes” [351]. This paper argues that reflection on Köhler’s serves to...

In his PhD proposal, now published as Seeing Sociological, Garfinkel [2006] formulated action in terms of a mutually constitutive structure—the Noesis-Noema Structures. This structure can be traced to Aaron Gurwitsch’s gestalt psychology and Law Good Gestalt which theorises how participants prioritise functional Gestalts over other possible meanings what is perceivable their surroundings. While...