GESTALT FUNCTION IN VISUAL MOTOR PATTERNS IN ORGANIC DISEASE OF THE BRAIN
- 1 February 1935
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 33 (2) , 300-329
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1935.02250140056005
Abstract
A test for the visual motorGestaltfunction, consisting of copying a group ofGestalttest forms, adapted from Wertheimer's1classic study of theGestaltschool of psychology, has been used in a wide range of organic and functional nervous and mental disorders. TheGestaltfunction may be defined as the function of the integrated organism whereby it responds to a given constellation of stimuli as a whole—the response itself being a constellation, pattern orGestalt. All integrative processes within the nervous system occur in constellations, patterns orGestalten. Integration occurs not by summation, subtraction or association but by differentiation, or by increasing or decreasing the internal complexity of the pattern in its setting. It appears that an integrated organism never responds in any other way. The whole setting of the stimulus and the whole integrative state of the organism determine the pattern of the response. Starting with thisKeywords
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