Originally published in 1981, this book is the product of the editors' curiosity about the status of ideas at the time, first proposed by Gestalt psychologists. At the end of our symposium it was agreed that they would try, in contributions to this volume, to convey the speculative and metatheoretical ground of their research in addition to the solid data and carefully wrought theories that are the figure of their research.

Preface 1. Psychophysics of Spatial-Frequency Channels Norma Graham 2. Figure and Ground Perception in Briefly Presented Isodipole Textures Bela Julesz 3. Concurrent-Pitch Segregation and the Theory of Indispensable Attributes Michael Kubovy 4. Asking the "What For" Question in Auditory Perception Albert S. Bregman 5. The Analysis of Unanalyzed Perceptions W.R. Garner 6. Perceptual Organization in Information Processing James R. Pomerantz 7. Perceptual Organization and Attention Daniel Kahneman and Avishai Henik 8. On the Semantics of a Glance at a Scene Irving Biederman 9. Levels of Perceptual Organization Julian Hochberg 10. Psychophysical Complementarity Roger N. Shepard 11. Coalitions as Models for Ecosystems: A Realist Perspective on Perceptual Organization Robert Shaw and M.T. Turvey 12. Three Approaches to Perceptual Organization: Comments on Views of Hochberg, Shepard, and Shaw and Turvey Fred Attneave 13. Perceptual Organization: An Overview James R. Pomerantz and Michael Kubovy. Bibliographic Index. Subject Index.