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A source book of Gestalt psychology.Gamma movement.

A source book of Gestalt psychology.: Gamma movement. It was not by chance that Gestalt theory had its origin in a study of movement phenomena. As an example of the numerous problems in this field we shall report an investigation (carried out as a continuation of the studies by Koffka and Kenkel) of how Gestalten arise and disappear and in what manner these phenomena are related to those of perceived movement. More specifically we shall study the occurrence of movement when but a single object is exposed for a brief interval of time. Kenkel has called this γ-movement. The present author was at the start ignorant of what his inquiry might produce and could not himself have predicted the theoretical relationships he might later discover among his results. The findings may at first, therefore, appear to the reader quite unrelated until he has reached the theoretical discussion with which the report closes. (The complete version of this article appeared as "Experimentelle Untersuchungen über das Entstehen und Vergehen von Gestalten," Psychol, Forsch., 1922, 2, 5-60. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company
Copyright
Copyright © 1938 American Psychological Association
Pages
173 –181
DOI
10.1037/11496-013
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It was not by chance that Gestalt theory had its origin in a study of movement phenomena. As an example of the numerous problems in this field we shall report an investigation (carried out as a continuation of the studies by Koffka and Kenkel) of how Gestalten arise and disappear and in what manner these phenomena are related to those of perceived movement. More specifically we shall study the occurrence of movement when but a single object is exposed for a brief interval of time. Kenkel has called this γ-movement. The present author was at the start ignorant of what his inquiry might produce and could not himself have predicted the theoretical relationships he might later discover among his results. The findings may at first, therefore, appear to the reader quite unrelated until he has reached the theoretical discussion with which the report closes. (The complete version of this article appeared as "Experimentelle Untersuchungen über das Entstehen und Vergehen von Gestalten," Psychol, Forsch., 1922, 2, 5-60. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Aug 13, 2007

Keywords: gamma movement; Gestalt theory

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