On Perceived Motion and Figural Organization - Max Wertheimer

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Résumé :
Wertheimer?s 1912 account of motion perception started a revolution and established the Gestalt school of psychology. It also paved the way for further investigations of apparent motion perception. Wertheimer?s 1923 article on figural organization (known as the ?dot study? for its numerous examples of dot patterns) helped define grouping as a principle of figure-ground perception. This book provides contemporary readers and researchers with Wertheimer?s two pivotal articles, newly translated into English and each accompanied by a synopsis, and two essays on apparent motion and figural organization that describe the long-term impact of Wertheimer?s work.

Biographie:
Max Wertheimer (1880?1943) was the founder of Gestalt psychology. He taught at the universities of Berlin and Frankfurt and at the New School for Social Research in New York. Lothar Spillmann, was for many years Professor in the Brain Research Unit at the University of Freiburg, is Visiting Professor at the Herder Foundation, Bonn, and the China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan. He edited Wolfgang Metgzer?s Laws of Seeing (MIT Press, 2005), another classic work from the Gestalt movement.