On the gestalt concept

Theory in Biosciences

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-36

  Breidbach, Olaf ^a   Jost, Jürgen ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Form; Morphology; Pattern; Shape; Structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; DYNAMICS; GESTALT THERAPY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 33747421771     PISSN: 14317613     EISSN: 16117530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thbio.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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