| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 203 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Translated from the German. |
| Contents |
Introduction to the English translation -- Preface -- Introduction: overview of the history of visual theory -- 1 Ambiguous figures in our daily environment -- 2 Visible and invisible forms -- 3 Of groups and borders -- 4 Developmental stages in shape formation -- 5 Gestalt laws serving camouflage -- 6 Brightness and spatial form -- 7 Gestalt laws in the spatial effect of perspective drawings -- 8 Form and substance of seen things- the Prägnanz tendency -- Gestalt laws in the spatial effect of brightness -- 10 Yet another important camouflage principle -- 11 Wandering moon -- 12 Laws of seeing and laws of nature. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
"This classic 1936 work in vision science, written by a leading figure in Germany's Gestalt movement in psychology and appearing in English for the first time, addresses topics that remain of major interest to vision researchers today. Wolfgang Metzger's main argument, drawn from Gestalt theory, is that the objects we perceive in visual experience are not the objects themselves but perceptual effigies of those objects constructed by our brain according to natural rules." "Each chapter is accompanied by visual demonstrations of the phenomena described; the book includes 194 illustrations, drawn from visual science, art, and everyday experience, that invite readers to verify Metzger's observations for themselves. Today's researchers may find themselves pondering the intriguing question of what effect Metzger's theories might have had on vision research if Laws of Seeing and its treasure trove of perceptual observations had been available to the English-speaking world at the time of its writing."--Jacket. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Translated from the German. |
| Subject |
Visual perception.
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Visual perception. |
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Visual Perception. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Gesetze de Sehens. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Metzger, Wolfgang, 1899-1979. Gesetze de Sehens. English. Laws of seeing. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006 0262134675 9780262134675 (DLC) 2005058056 (OCoLC)62762304 |
| ISBN |
9780262279710 (electronic book) |
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0262279711 (electronic book) |
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9781429477604 (electronic book) |
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1429477601 (electronic book) |
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0262134675 (alkaline paper) |
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9780262134675 (alkaline paper) |
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0262513366 (paperback) |
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9780262513364 (paperback) |
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