Pattern Processing: A Further Rationalization of Sight

The author has developed a means for studying pattern perception in man. This method is applicable not only to simple geometric shapes and symbols but also to complex patterns and to social patterns and to patterns in aesthetic and linguistic form. This breadth of approach is one of the major goals towards which the Gestalt psychologists have pointed.

He presents a series of matrices to illustrate both the development and the logic of this new approach. An application to culture-fair intelligence is noted, as well as a new and important distinction between monocular (form) and binocular (brightness) matching processes. Extensions of matrices to Op art and to a model of ethics are illustrated.