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Rudolf Amheim: The Little Owl On The Shoulder Of Athene, Roy R. Behrens
Rudolf Amheim: The Little Owl On The Shoulder Of Athene, Roy R. Behrens
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The author discusses the life of Rudolf Arnheim (b. 1904), the celebrated art-theorist and psychologist, professor emeritus of the psychology of art at Harvard University and author of 15 books about perceptual psychology in relation to art, architecture and film, among them Film as Art, Art and Visual Perception, Visual Thinking and The Power of the Center. The article is a biographical overview of Arnheim's life and work, including his association with the gestalt psychologists in Berlin in the 1920s, his pioneering work as a film critic, his flight from Nazi Germany and his subsequent immigration to the United States …
The 'Visual World' Program At The University Of Northern Iowa, U.S.A., Roy R. Behrens, Kenneth Lash
The 'Visual World' Program At The University Of Northern Iowa, U.S.A., Roy R. Behrens, Kenneth Lash
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Since the 1950's several psychologists have studied the subject of human selective attention [1, 2]. It has been called the 'cocktail party problem' because a good example of the exercise of selective attention occurs when a large convivial group of people come together and it is still possible for an individual to isolate from the high noise level of conversation what a particular speaker says. Thus, the psychological question is: How do humans select what they consider significant information from the vast amount of information provided to the senses by the external environment? It is known that the amount of …