Chapter 5 From perceptive fields to Gestalt

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 155 B, Issue , 2006, Pages 67-92

  Spillmann, Lothar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

fading and filling in; figure ground segregation and grouping; gestalt; long range color interaction; neurophysiological correlates of perception; perceptive fields; visual illusions

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; COLOR VISION; GESTALT THERAPY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; HISTORY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

GESTALT THEORY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33749247393     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)55005-8     Document Type: Review

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