Synsoplevede Figurer

Rubin, E. (1915). Synsoplevede Figurer: Studier i psykologisk Analyse.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1915

Link

https://philpapers.org/rec/RUBSF

Cited from

art_aesthetics, cognitive_science

Cited by

5 citations across 5 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Figure-Ground
  • The Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin (1915) first isolated this organization as a primitive of perceptual experience, observing that one and the same contour is experienced as belonging to only one of the two regions it divides.

    This sourceGyldendalske Boghandel. Doctoral thesis (University of Copenhagen) that first isolated figure-ground as a primitive of perceptual experience, observing that a shared contour belongs to only one of the two regions it divides and that the same stimulus can reverse which region is figure; supports the reciprocal, mutually-exclusive, boundary-owned-by-the-figure signature and the reversibility demonstration.

• Gestalt Principles
  • The figure-ground principle, originally formalized by Rubin (1915) in Synsoplevede Figurer through controlled phenomenological observation, has since been shown to be modulated by training, attention, and prior context even though its core operation is automatic and pre-attentive.
• Negative Space
  • The practice originated in painting and drawing (the "empty" canvas as foundational, chiaroscuro's use of darkness as space-defining element) and has evolved into a foundational principle across visual design (graphic design, web design, product design), information design (data visualization, typography), spatial design (architecture, landscape), and rhetoric (silence in speech, white space in writing)

Mechanisms

• Figure-Ground Reversal
  • It rewards the Gestalt fact that figure and ground are assigned, not given.

    This sourceEstablishes reversible figure-ground organization, in which the same contour permits alternate assignments of figure and ground.

• Negative-Space Logo
  • This is figure-ground perception put to work — the same reversible seeing studied in Rubin's vase

    This source1. del. Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag (1915). Uses one shared contour to demonstrate reversible figure-ground perception between a vase and two profiles.

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Links previously used in the corpus

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• https://www.kb.dk/e-mat/dod/111408024790-color.pdf ×2
• https://www.worldcat.org/title/synsoplevede-figurer-studier-i-psykologisk-analyse/oclc/46823402 ×1

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