Frasi di Max Wertheimer

Max Wertheimer è stato uno psicologo ceco. Fu uno dei maggiori esponenti della psicologia gestaltistica assieme a Wolfgang Köhler e Kurt Koffka. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. Aprile 1880 – 12. Ottobre 1943
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Max Wertheimer: Frasi in inglese

“It has long seemed obvious — and is, in fact, the characteristic tone of European science — that “science” means breaking up complexes into their component elements. Isolate the elements, discover their laws, then reassemble them, and the problem is solved. All wholes are reduced to pieces and piecewise relations between pieces.
The fundamental “formula” of Gestalt theory might be expressed in this way. There are wholes, the behaviour of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes are themselves determined by the intrinsic nature of the whole. It is the hope of Gestalt theory to determine the nature of such wholes…
We hear a melody and then, upon hearing it again, memory enables us to recognize it. But what is it that enables us to recognize the melody when it is played in a new key? The sum of the elements is different, yet the melody is the same; indeed, one is often not even aware that a transposition has been made… Is it really true that when I hear a melody I have a sum of individual tones (pieces) which constitute the primary foundation of my experience? Is not perhaps the reverse of this true? What I really have, what I hear of each individual note, what I experience at each place in the melody is apart which is itself determined by the character of the whole,”

As quoted in: George Klir (2013), Facets of Systems Science, p. 25
"Gestalt Theory," 1924

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