A quantitative approach to figural "goodness".

By J. Hochberg, E. McAlister. 1953

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On the Binding Problem in Artificial Neural Networks (2020, background): “The best-known results of Gestalt research are their principles of perceptual grouping (also known as Gestalt Laws; see Figure 21 for an overview).”
Simplicity: a unifying principle in cognitive science? (2003, background): “• Items with simple descriptions are typically easier to detect in noise and easier to detect[ 2 ,11].”
Measures of Temporal Pattern Complexity (2000, background): “Finally, the third type of complexity, called generative complexity, refers to a tendency towards the most economical description ( Hochberg & McAlister, 1953; Chater, 1996).”
Simplicity versus likelihood in visual perception: from surprisals to precisals. (2000, background): “Also taking place in the 1950s, it led researchers (e.g., Hochberg & McAlister, 1953 ) to rethink the concept of information, which resulted in a paradigm shift from probabilistic information to descriptive information.”
The status of the minimum principle in the theoretical analysis of visual perception. (1985, methodology): “A number of studies have been conducted to establish empirically whether perception in fact exhibits minimum tendencies, without seeking to establish any particular explanation of such tendencies (e.g., Hochberg & Brooks, 1960; Hochberg & McAlister, 1953).”
Reconciling simplicity and likelihood principles in perceptual organization. (1996, methodology): “Psychologists have used two approaches to operationalize the notion of brevity of encoding: Shannon's (1948) information theory (Attneave, 1959; Garner, 1962 ) and the tradition known as coding theory ( Hochberg & McAlister, 1953; Restle, 1979; Simon, 1972), one elaboration of which is structural i”
A Century of Gestalt Psychology in Visual Perception I. Perceptual Grouping and Figure-Ground Organization (2012, background): “…slipstream of Shannon's information theory, a few researchers tried to provide a quantitative underpinning to the central Gestalt notion of simplicity (e.g., Attneave, 1954; Attneave & Arnoult, 1956; Hochberg & McAlister, 1953; Leeuwenberg, 1969, 1971; for a review, see Hatfield & Epstein, 1985).”
An overview of quantitative approaches in Gestalt perception. (2016, unknown): “Vision Research (2016), http://dx.doi.org/ principle (Arnoult & Attneave, 1956; Hochberg, 1957; Hochberg & McAlister, 1953).”
A Century of Gestalt Psychology in Visual Perception II. Conceptual and Theoretical Foundations (2012, background): “In the aftermath of Shannon’s (1948) breakthrough in communication theory, psychologists started to rethink the concept of information (e.g., Attneave, 1954; Garner, 1962; Hochberg & McAlister, 1953; D. M. MacKay, 1950; Miller & Frick, 1949; Quastler, 1955).”