Perceptual Organization - 9781138201262

Taylor & Francis

Perceptual OrganizationAuthor(s): Michael Kubovy, James R. Pomerantz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138201262, 978-1138201262\nSynopsis\nOriginally published in 1981, perceptual organization had been synonymous with Gestalt psychology, and Gestalt psychology had fallen into disrepute. In the heyday of Behaviorism, the few cognitive psychologists of the time pursued Gestalt phenomena. But in 1981, Cognitive Psychology was married to Information Processing. (Some would say that it was a marriage of convenience.) After the wedding, Cognitive Psychology had come to look like a theoretically wrinkled Behaviorism; very few of the mainstream topics of Cognitive Psychology made explicit contact with Gestalt phenomena. In the background, Cognition's first love Gestalt was pining to regain favor.\n\nThe cognitive psychologists' desire for a phenomenological and intellectual interaction with Gestalt psychology did not m.