A Century of Gestalt Psychology in Visual Perception: I. Perceptual Grouping and Figure-Ground Organization

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- **Published as:** Wagemans, J., Elder, J. H., Kubovy, M., Palmer, S. E.,
  Peterson, M. A., Singh, M. and von der Heydt, R. (2012) 'A century of Gestalt
  psychology in visual perception: I. Perceptual grouping and figure–ground
  organization', *Psychological Bulletin*, 138(6), pp. 1172–1217.
  doi: 10.1037/a0029333.
- **RAW file:** the NIH Public Access author manuscript (released in PMC, in
  final edited form). It carries its own "Wagemans et al. Page N" pagination,
  which in this copy aligns 1:1 with the PDF page numbers (PDF p. 3 = manuscript
  Page 3). The version-of-record journal pagination is 1172–1217. Wiki locators
  therefore cite the PDF page; the full printed page range is given in
  `## References` and `references.bib`.
- **Authors' affiliations:** University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium; York
  University, Canada; University of Virginia; University of California, Berkeley;
  University of Arizona; Rutgers University–New Brunswick; Johns Hopkins
  University.
- **Coverage:** the centennial review of Gestalt psychology in vision. A brief
  history of the Berlin school (Wertheimer's 1912 phi-motion paper, von
  Ehrenfels' Gestalt qualities, Köhler's physical Gestalten and psychophysical
  isomorphism, the field-theory critique); perceptual grouping (classic
  principles plus the new principles of generalized common fate, synchrony,
  common region, element connectedness, uniform connectedness, and the
  quantification of proximity); contour integration and completion; figure-ground
  organization (classic configural principles — convexity, symmetry, small area,
  surroundedness — new image-based principles, and the roles of past experience
  and attention); and the neural mechanisms of contour grouping, figure-ground
  modulation and border-ownership (Lamme 1995; von der Heydt). This is the first
  of a two-paper set; the second paper covers conceptual and theoretical
  foundations.
- **Routing note:** routed from the inbox to human-centered-design-kb as the
  primary owner, on cognitive-foundations grounds — it is the canonical primary
  source for the existing [[perceptual-organization]] article (which until now
  rested only on the Proctor & Proctor 2021 handbook chapter). The vision,
  visual-attention and scene-perception material is also relevant to
  eye-tracking-research-kb, which should link to this source rather than
  duplicate it.

## BibTeX (canonical entry, mirrored in Wiki/references.bib)

```bibtex
@article{wagemans2012century,
  author  = {Wagemans, Johan and Elder, James H. and Kubovy, Michael and Palmer, Stephen E. and Peterson, Mary A. and Singh, Manish and von der Heydt, R{\"u}diger},
  title   = {A Century of Gestalt Psychology in Visual Perception: {I}. Perceptual Grouping and Figure-Ground Organization},
  journal = {Psychological Bulletin},
  volume  = {138},
  number  = {6},
  pages   = {1172--1217},
  year    = {2012},
  doi     = {10.1037/a0029333}
}
```

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