PHYSICS 1A03 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Microelectrode, Optic Chiasm, Occipital Lobe

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Physics
• Course: PHYSICS 1A03
• Professor: Alan Chen

Document Summary

Law that describe how we organize visual input: figure-ground. One of the most fundamental gestalt principles. The ability to determine what aspect of a visual scene is part of the object itself and what is part of the background. Figures tend to have distinct borders that give it form over the background. Constantly determining what is figure and what is background -- do this so often it becomes automatic: proximity. The tendency to group elements that are close together in space. More likely to group together things closer in space than further apart: closure. The tendency to fill in gaps in a contour to perceive a whole object. Just because one object blocks the contour of another object, you don"t perceive it as two different objects: similarity. The tendency to group together elements that are physically similar: continuity. The ability to perceive a simple, continuous form rather than a combination of awkward forms.