What Do Infants Recognize and What Do Their Visual Memories Look Like?
If parts of the process of visual perception have to be learnt and developed anatomatically, this apparently happens in the earliest years of life. Since it is difficult to find out what infants really see and understand in the important first year of lif
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Jiirgen Weber
The Judgement of the Eye The Metamorphoses of Geometry - One of the Sources of Visual Perception and Consciousness (A Further Development of Gestalt Psychology)
Springer-Verlag Wien GmbH
ISBN 978-3-211-83768-9
ISBN 978-3-7091-6112-8 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-7091-6112-8
PREFACE
Preface
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PART I Geometric Concepts of the Visual Cortex as the Basis of Visual Information Chapter 1 Short Summary of the Main Ideas
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Chapter 2 What Is Seeing? How Visual Memory Is Affected by Agnosia and Alzheimer's Disease
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Chapter 3 What Do Infants Recognize and What Do Their Visual Memories Look Like?
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Chapter 4 The Conclusions of Gestalt Psychology and Its Limitations
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Chapter 5 My Question: How Do Forms Convey Content; Are There Visual Categories of Expression?
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Chapter 6 The Rosette
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Chapter 7 Contraction and Expansion
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Chapter 8 The Classification of Memory Pictures by Students. Reproduction Memory - Identification Memory
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Chapter 9 The "Orbits" and Their Application
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Chapter 10 The Start of Ornamentation All over the World and at All Times
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Chapter 11 Actual Enlargement and Reduction
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Chapter 12 Rotated Surfaces
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PART II Chapter l3 Form and Movement
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Chapter 14 The Metamorphosis of Geometry in Egyptian Art
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Chapter 15 The Metamorphoses of Geometry in the Painting and Sculpture of Greece
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Chapter 16 Movement Schemata
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Chapter 17 And Once Again the Visual Memory
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Chapter 18 So-called Naturalism
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Summing-up
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Bibliography
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Index
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Figures
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This book is essentially about the question of what forms say to us, what information they convey about their very existence, how we understand their language. How does their expression come about?
For more than 20 years I maintained a constant dialogue with Rudolf Arnheim. Over and above the literature on gestalt psychology these very discussions brought me close to the essence of this academic field.
Gestalt psychology, neurophysiology and the psychology of perception have hitherto tried to answer the question of whether we see forms as a whole or as the sum of their parts, why as a rule we perceive things as they actually are and not as they appear on the retina, which is in fact changed in perspective and in size, and which visual cortical areas and which neurons react to which phenomena. But the most important question for me is what the thing that is seen informs us additionally.
Thanks are due to many others, for instance the psychologist Professor Ernst Poppel and Professor Singer, the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, for certain ideas and not least to my assistants and students for their questions.
How do we tell the difference between a cheerful and a gloomy face? Why do we see that a bud will open shortly? Why do we find some phenomena to be dangerous and others to be desirable?
Many people have worked on this book, translators, secretarial staff. I would like to express my thanks to them for patiently revising my constant1y changing texts,
