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Gestalt Bubble and the genesis of space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2004

Victor Rosenthal  and
Yves-Marie Visetti
Victor Rosenthal*
Affiliation:
INSERM XR-324, Centre Paul Broca, 75014Paris, France
Yves-Marie Visetti*
Affiliation:
LATTICE-CNRS-ENS, 92120Montrouge, France
*
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Abstract:

Lehar (rightly) insists on the volumetric character of our experience of space. He claims that three-dimensional space stems from the functional three-dimensional topology of the brain. But his “Gestalt Bubble” model of volumetric space bears an intrinsically static structure – a kind of theater, or “diorama,” bound to the visual modality. We call attention to the ambivalence of Gestalt legacy and question the status and precise import of Lehar's model and the phenomenology that motivates it.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , August 2003 , pp. 424
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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