Wagemans J, Elder JH, Kubovy M, et al. A century of Gestalt psychology in visual perception: I. Perceptual grouping and figure-ground organization. Psychol Bull. 2012;138(6) ...

Soon after it was introduced in psychology, Gestalt was applied to the field of visual perception by theorists like Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka. They are Gestalt psychologists.

The law of completion is part of a series of ideas from Gestalt psychology. Back in the 1920s, long before the advent of modern neuroscience, a group of German experimental psychologists asked ... In ...

Gestalt was a German school of perceptual psychology whose motto was, "The whole is greater than the sum of the parts." The approach focused on how the human mind integrates elements of the world ...

Gestalt principles of perception are theories proposed by German psychologists in the 1920s to explain how people organize visual information 1. Gestalt is a German word meaning shape or form. The ...

So Iser uses gestalt psychology to study the perception of a reader and an individual’s responses. According to this theory, a reader is as important as the text itself.