Gestaltzerfall (German for "shape decomposition" or Gestalt decomposition[1]) is a type of visual agnosia and is a psychological phenomenon where delays in recognition are observed when a complex shape is stared at for a while as the shape seems to decompose into its constituting parts. In plain terms, if a subject reads or hears the same term over and over, that term ceases to have any meaning. With regards to kanji, a study has shown that delays are most significant when the characters are of the same size. When characters to recognize are of different sizes, delays are observed only when they are of different patterns.[2]
Gestaltzerfall has also been described as a phenomenon where the output signals from the brain go beyond their expected range.[3]
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^Ninose, Yuri; Gyoba, Jiro (1996). "持続的注視による漢字認知の遅延 ゲシュタルト崩壊現象の分析" [Delays produced by prolonged viewing in the recognition of Kanji characters: Analysis of the 'Gestaltzerfall' phenomenon]. The Japanese Journal of Psychology (in Japanese). 67 (3): 227–231. doi:10.4992/jjpsy.67.227. PMID 8981675.
^Funada, Mariko; Funada, Tadashi; Igarashi, Yoshihide (2017). "Dynamic Changes of ERPs in Gestaltzerfall Phenomena: Analysis Using Multi-data Selecting and Averaging Method". Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics: Performance, Emotion and Situation Awareness. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 10275. pp. 117–127. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58472-0_10. ISBN 978-3-319-58471-3.
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