perception in gestalt psychology

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I would appreciate references about space perception as viewed by gestalt psychologist. Internet sources would be appreciated if available.

-- Milton Fineman (me22@mindspring.com), April 18, 2003

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Here's one internet source that looks helpful: http://www.sonoma.edu/users/d/daniels/Early_Gestalt.html You can find more simply by using a Google search.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), April 19, 2003.

If you're looking for the foundations of the Gestalt view of *space* perception specifically, look to the work of Ernst Mach, who (in his radical phenomenalism) thought of space and time as special "add-on" qualities in perception.

-- Chrisotpher Green (cgreen@chass.utoronto.ca), April 19, 2003.

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