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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Gestalt psychology."”.
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Gestalt Psychology as Applied to Interpreters Theatre
… is to investigate the relevant areas of the Gestalt Psychology that can be utilized within the theatre of the interpreter and to apply various methods of Gestalt Psychology to interpreters theatre. The assumption implied is that through a knowledge of these concepts, they be used not only in …
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Usurping architecture : sculptural resistance to the built environment
… on minimal art, where I explore the role of Gestalt psychology in creating a phenomenological response in the viewer. In the following chapters I indicate how the strategies employed by the minimal artists were used in subsequent decades as a response to the architectural environment. Part …
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New contributions in overcomplete image representations inspired from the functional architecture of the primary visual cortex = Nuevas contribuciones en representaciones sobrecompletas de imágenes inspiradas por la arquitectura funcional de la corteza visual primaria
… physiological and psychophysical studies, Gestalt psychology and statistics on natural images The thesis is mostly centered in overcomplete representations (i.e. representations increasing the dimensionality of the data) for multiple reasons. First because they allow to overcome existing …
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John Dewey and an ecological philosophy of religion
… those of pragmatism, naturalism, ecological and Gestalt psychology, deep ecology, and recent cognitive science. Dewey’s religious views are also analyzed in relation to the self-cultivation doctrines of Daoism and Zen Buddhism, highlighting rich connections between Dewey and Eastern thought; all …
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The experience of insight : an existential-phenomenological study
… experience of insight: the holistic approach of gestalt psychology; the existential approach of phenomenological psychology; the puzzle-problem approach of cognitive psychology; the creative approach of genius, dreams, design and invention; the representational approach of models; the case-study …
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Spaces of the Ear: Literature, Media, and the Science of Sound, 1870-1930
… out a competing conception of hearing within Gestalt psychology, early stereophonic sound experiments, and literary texts by Robert Musil, which portray the modern listener as surprisingly active and confident in deciphering and navigating an increasingly complex auditory environment. In the …
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Support for Gestalt Versus Business-As-Usual Theories of Insight Depends on Operational Definition of Insight
… problem solving. One hundred two undergraduate psychology students from Old Dominion University completed working memory tasks, six classic insight problems, and gave initial problem representation ratings for the insight problems before solution attempt. Using a think-aloud protocol, we …
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Gestalt Work For the Actor: A Documentary Video Production
Gestalt Work for the Actor is a documentary about Dr. Renee Vincent's Gestalt acting exercise. Students are trained to recall powerful emotions and then employ the conjured passions into performance. This documentary examines the Gestalt acting exercise and what benefits it affords actors. The …