23 ABSTRACT Psychological type theory provides a coherent, parsimonious meaning framework for understanding similarities and differences in the theoretical content of the psychological systems. The present report demonstrates that primary qualities of specific psychological type processes inform the theoretical content of the psychological systems. A typological analysis of the theoretical cont...

This paper proposes a perceptually motivated method for solving proportional analogy problems involving sequential patterns. Our method is based on an algebraic model of pattern perception that determines the gestalt structure of sequential patterns. The gestalts of sequential patterns are represented as algebraic terms in the model. An analogical relation between sequential patterns appearing ...

Wertheimer’s theory suggests a general perception law according to which objects having a quality in common get perceptually grouped. The Helmholtz principle is a quantitative version of this general grouping law. It states that a grouping is perceptually “meaningful” if its number of occurrences would be very small in a random situation: Geometric structures are then characterized as large dev...

Curve reconstruction is the problem of constructing polygonal curve(s) from a set of sample points. Among all the research to solve this problem, visual perception based algorithms, DISCUR and VICUR, come up in recent years as intuitive methods. DISCUR and VICUR connect points into patterns that agree with human visual perception by applying two major Gestalt laws: nearness and smoothness. In t...

The historical emergence of a field devoted to the experimental investigation of effects identified as "social" required a radical break with traditional conceptions of the social. Psychological experimentation was limited to the investigation of effects that were proximal, local, short-term, and decomposable. A viable accommodation to these constraints occurred in the closely related programs ...

The human visual system can interpret two dimensional (2-D) line drawings like the Necker cube as three dimensional (3-D) wire frames. We focus attention on a principle to minimize the entropy of angle distribution between line segments in a 3-D wire frame as a concrete definition of the law of pragnanz in Gestalt Psychology. And we implement the principle with the perceptual preference of plan...

We argue for a memory-based approach to music analysis which works with concrete musical experiences rather than with abstract rules or principles. New pieces of music are analyzed by combining fragments from structures of previously encountered pieces. The occurrence-frequencies of the fragments are used to determine the preferred analysis of a piece. We test some instances of this approach ag...

Studies of entrepreneurial orientation tend to examine its three most common features only (risk-taking, innovativeness, and proactiveness), merging these into a gestalt construct of entrepreneurial orientation and then analyzing its effect on business performance. This is in contrast to Lumpkin andDesswho stressed an entrepreneurial orientation is best characterized by five dimensions which ca...

Visual objects are viewed as a prime example of hierarchical structure; they can be dened as “multilevel hierarchical structure of parts and wholes” (Palmer 1977). For instance, a human body is composed of parts—head, legs, arms, etc., which in turn are composed of parts—eyes, nose, and so forth. €e perceptual relations between wholes and their component parts have been a controversial issue f...