COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Christian Von Ehrenfels, Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: COGS 100
• Professor: Jeremy Turner

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Kurt koffka (1886-1941) famous quote: the whole is other [not greater] than the sum of its parts (koffka,1935:176: a crucial variation: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts aristotle. Max wertheimer (1880-1943) inventor of the phi phenomenon (1912) Tononi"s panpsychist and the integrated information theory of consciousness (iit, 2008: the symbol represents perceptual information that is ultimately more than. Reification generally refers to making something real, bringing something into being, or making something concrete . Reification (gestalt psychology), the perception of an object as having more spatial information than is actually present . This is related to wertheimer"s phenomenon (1912, 1935). Wertheimer"s principles of perceptual organization (1923) (friedenberg & silverman, 2012: 68). Parts that are close to one another in the visual field are perceived as a whole . Parts that are similar in lightness, color, shape or some other characteristic group together : closure.