The World in Your Head : A Gestalt View of the Mechanism of Conscious Experience

Contents: Preface. The Two Worlds of Reality. The Dimensions of Conscious Experience. The Enigma of Gestalt Phenomena. The Computational Mechanism of Perception. The Perception of Illumination. Recognition vs. Completion, Abstraction vs. Reification. Relation to Neurophysiology. Harmonic Resonance Theory. Image Theory of Language and Cognition. Motor Control and Field Theory. A Psycho-Aesthetic Hypothesis. Appendices: The Coplanarity Field. The Occlusion Field. The Orthogonality Field. Edge Consistency and Inconsistency Constraints. Influence of the Visual Input.