Gestalt psychology in Italy

Verstegen, Ian

doi:10.1002/(sici)1520-6696(200024)36:1<31::aid-jhbs3>3.0.co;2-d

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“…Furthermore, if considered the recent development of the Gestalt ideas in computational neuroscience, its claim of sharing a homogeneous Gestalt foundation is difficult to reconcile with Metzger’s and Kanizsa’s conceptual proposals. Not to mention the fact that, on the local survival of Gestalt ideas opinions may divide (see e.g., Verstegen, 2000; Zanforlin, 2004). On the other hand, the Gestalt approach also comprises researchers who strictly speaking are not part of the classic original restricted group (i.e., Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Köhler for the Berliners, and Vittorio Benussi for the Grazers), although close to them and sharing most of their claims, methods of investigation, and results.…”

Section: The Place Of Experimental Phenomenology In the Gestalt Tradi...mentioning

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Experimental phenomenology, a challenge.

Albertazzi

2021

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice

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Experimental phenomenology is both a theory and a method and is derived from, but not the same as, Gestalt psychology. The theoretical foundations of this methodological approach maintain that the kind of information obtained during conscious perceiving or imagining is directly given in present awareness, is qualitative in nature, is endowed with meaning, and is not merely a product of the computational representation, retrieval, or elaboration of physical stimuli. From a phenomenological standpoint, a broad line of current research of experimental psychology reflects, methodologically, a reductionistic simulation of the physical sciences and fails, theoretically, to explain the laws of dependence among the (ontologically) different levels of reality. Sharing common phenomenological foundations for the experimental study of sensory consciousness, the five articles in this special issue and the two other following sections describe perceptual "illusions," three-dimensional spatial perceptions, perception of color and light, expressive qualities, and other sensory phenomena as studied by experimental phenomenology differently from psychophysical research.

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Experimental phenomenology, a challenge.

Albertazzi

2021

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice

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“…The Experimental Phenomenology of Perception is part of an important tradition in the research into Psychology in Italy, and undoubtedly inspired by and connected to Gestalt Psychology-despite some specific theoretical differences (Giora & Bobbio, 2022;Kanizsa, & Caramelli, 1988;Kanizsa & Luccio, 1986;Sambin, 1980;Smith, 1988;Verstegen, 2000;Zanforlin, 2004;Zanforlin, & Sinico, 2004, 2005. Independently of whether Fabio Metelli, Gaetano Kanizsa, Paolo Bozzi and Giovanni Bruno Vicario used the expression 'the Experimental Phenomenology of Perception' or not to refer to their own approach, these names are the first that come to mind as representatives of this school for the generation of researchers into perception to which we also belong.…”

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The Experimental Phenomenology of Perception. A Collective Reflection on the Present and Future of this Approach

Bianchi

Burro

2022

Gestalt Theory

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Summary The paper presents the result of a collective reflection inspired by the individual suggestions of 30 researchers working in different research areas. They are all familiar with the Experimental Phenomenology of Perception, and are aware of the importance that this approach might represent nowadays in their specific research field. The picture that emerges from this ‘mosaic’ stimulates us to consider the potential future developments of this approach if we accept that we need to push its borders beyond the traditional aims of the study of perception (as masterfully developed by the historic Italian Maestri of this approach). If we take this broader view, the Experimental Phenomenology of Perception can extend its perimeters from an analysis of strictly perceptual aspects to an analysis of cognitive and metacognitive aspects (such as aesthetic evaluations, the perception of risk, the experience of certainty/uncertainty in a reasoning process, the perception of proximity to/distance from the solution to a problem and meaning-making in language). The cognitive and metacognitive aspects referred to are grounded in and modelled on the perceiver’s experience of a given situation.

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Towards a Discourse on Foundation

Wendt

2024

SpringerBriefs in Psychology

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Gestalt psychology in Italy

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

Experimental phenomenology, a challenge.

Experimental phenomenology, a challenge.

The Experimental Phenomenology of Perception. A Collective Reflection on the Present and Future of this Approach

Towards a Discourse on Foundation

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