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1922

Perception: An Introduction to the Gestalt-Theorie

Kurt Koffka

Argues that perceived wholes are not built up from summed sensory elements, so perception must be explained by the organising laws of the whole configuration itself.

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Too hard? Start hereMIT 9.35 PerceptionRuth Rosenholtz and Pawan Sinha (MIT OpenCourseWare), 2024Treats perception as inference under uncertainty rather than as recording, using illusions and psychophysics to show what the visual and auditory systems must be assuming.

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