?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Sens+et+temps+de+la+Gestalt+(Gestalt+theory%3A+critical+overview+and+contemporary+relevance)&rft.creator=Rosenthal%2C+Victor&rft.creator=Visetti%2C+Yves-Marie&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Computational+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Dynamical+Systems&rft.subject=Semantics&rft.description=Rather+than+mere+psychological+doctrine%2C+Gestalt+theory+was+conceived+of+as+a+general+theory+of+form+and+organization+deemed+to+lay+a+unified+groundwork+for+several+domains+of+scientific+endeavor.+Our+aim+in+this+article+is+to+assess+the+legacy+of+this+framework%2C+and+examine+its+relevance+for+present-day+research+in+cognitive+science.+We+thus+survey+the+intellectual+contexts+within+which+Gestalt+theory+originated+and+evolved%2C+and+review+some+of+its+central+features%3A+a+phenomenological+approach+to+philosophy+and+science%3B+grounding+in+the+field+theory+of+physics+and+in+the+theory+of+dynamical+systems+in+mathematics%3B+perception+viewed+as+a+general+structure+of+cognition%3B+intrinsic+interrelatedness+of+forms+and+values%3B+unitary+approach+to+perceiving%2C+acting%2C+and+expression.+We+hope+this+review+will+allow+for+a+clarification+of+the+status+of+Gestalt+concepts+in+cognitive+and+language+sciences%2C+both+with+respect+to+fields+of+inquiry+wherein+they+continue+to+exert+substantial+influence+as+well+as+in+regard+to+fields+from+which+all+reference+to+Gestalt+ideas+has+long+since+disappeared.+We+submit+that+the+legacy+of+Gestalt+theory+will+be+most+usefully+reappraised+with+respect+to+its+dynamic+principles%2C+although+this+reappraisal+would+entail+a+critical+examination+of+the+customary+Gestalt+concepts+of+time+and+psychogenesis%2C+as+well+as+a+reconsideration+of+the+status+of+motion+and+action+in+form+(and%2For+meaning)+constitution.&rft.date=1999&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F833%2F3%2FGestArt.pdf&rft.identifier=++Rosenthal%2C+Victor+and+Visetti%2C+Yves-Marie++(1999)+Sens+et+temps+de+la+Gestalt+(Gestalt+theory%3A+critical+overview+and+contemporary+relevance).++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F833%2F