Eddy Zemach’s scientific contributions

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Publications (1)


Toward a Psychology of Art
  • Article

September 1974

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8 Reads

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49 Citations

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Eddy Zemach

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Rudolf Arnheim

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David Barnett

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R. W. Beardsmore

Citations (1)


... As Arnheim [43,44] stated 'perhaps perception consists in the application, to the stimulus material, of "perceptual categories", such as roundness, redness, smallness, symmetry, verticality, etc. which are evoked by the structure of the given configuration' [44, p. 32]. Thus, he provided a translation of Fechner's processing from below, while further arguing 'if perceiving consists in the creation of patterns of perceptual categories, adequate to the stimulus configuration, and if the artist's task includes the representation of such patterns, then he has actually to invent a pictorial form that more often than not cannot simply be "read off" from the percept' [44, p. 35]. ...

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Opinion piece Metaphors or mechanism? Predictive coding and a (brief ) history of empirical study of the arts
Toward a Psychology of Art
  • Citing Article
  • September 1974

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism