Walter Gerbino

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Walter Gerbino (born February 24, 1951 in Trieste ) is an Italian psychologist and, like Paolo Bozzi (1930–2003) and Giovanni Bruno Vicario (1932–2020), belongs to Gaetano Kanizsa ’s “School of Trieste” of Gestalt theory in Italy.

From 1982 to 1983 Gerbino was Full Professor of Psychology at the University of Padua . Since 1983 Gerbino has been Professor of General Psychology at the University of Trieste . From 1997 to 2003 he was also President of the Faculty of Psychology at this university; he has held this position again since 2006.

Gerbino's specialty is perceptual psychology , in particular the so-called "amodal supplement". This means the perception phenomenon that, in the case of certain visual templates, a figure that is not given at all or is only partially given in the stimulus template appears to continue in the perception under another figure. Such a phenomenon experimentally investigated by Gerbino is named after him "Gerbino illusion". In 2005, Gerbino published together with Fabrizio Ventimiglia and Carlo Fantoni the discovery of a new illusion, the so-called "Tangenten Illusion" (tangent illusion).

Selected publications

  • 1983: La percezione . Il Mulino, ISBN 8815001727
  • 1985 (ed.): Conoscenza e struttura. Festschrift by Gaetano Kanizsa . Il Mulino, ISBN 8815007903
  • 1988: Models of achromatic transparency: A theoretical analysis. Gestalt Theory, 10 , 5-20.
  • 1994: Achromatic transparency. In: AL Gilchrist (ed.), Lightness, Brightness, and Transparency . Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 215-255.
  • 2012: Amodal completion and shape approximation. Perception 41 , ECVP Abstract Supplement.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Gerbino, Italian Journal of Psychology 5 , 88-100.
  2. ↑ see: Gerbino W, Ventimiglia F, Fantoni C, 2005, "The tangent illusion" ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Perception 34 ECVP Abstract Supplement @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.perceptionweb.com
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SURNAME Gerbino, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste