Gunnar Johansson (psychophysicist)
{{Short description|Swedish psychophysicist (1911–1998)}}
Gunnar Johansson (1911–1998) was a Swedish psychophysicist.
Biography
He was interested in the Gestalt laws of motion perception in vision. He is best known for his investigations of biological motion.{{cite journal| author=G. Johansson | title=Visual perception of biological motion and a model for its analysis | journal=Percept. Psychophys. | volume=14 | year=1973 | issue=2 | pages=201–211 | doi=10.3758/BF03212378| doi-access=free }}{{cite journal| author=G. Johansson | title=Spatio-temporal differentiation and integration in visual motion perception | journal=Percept. Res. | volume=38 | year=1976 | pages=379–393}} He helped develop the rigidity assumption which posits that proximal stimuli that can be perceived as rigid objects are generally perceived as such. Johansson received his Ph.D. from the Stockholm University College in 1950, on the thesis Configurations in event perception.Johansson, Gunnar, Configurations in event perception: an experimental study, Diss. Stockholm : Högskolan, Stockholm, 1950 - [http://libris.kb.se/bib/843279 Libris record] He was professor of psychology at Uppsala University from 1957 to 1977. In 1970, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
References
- {{cite book |title=Perceiving events and objects |last=Johansson |first=Gunnar |author2=Sten Sture Bergström |author3=William Epstein |year=1994 |publisher=Lawrence Erlbaum Associates |isbn=978-0-8058-1555-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/perceivingevents00jans|url-access=registration |quote=Gunnar Johansson. |accessdate=2009-09-22}}
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Category:Swedish psychologists
Category:Stockholm University alumni
Category:Academic staff of Uppsala University
Category:Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
Category:20th-century psychologists
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