PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Ames Room, Red Color, Proposed Los Angeles Nfl Stadiums
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Visual system needs to figure out: what is part of the background and what is part of the object of interest, what each object is, and what each component of the visual stimuli belongs to. One can recognize picture of vase against flower background within one second, despite many components being present to the visual stimuli and mixed together. Form perception is the basis of this ability of our visual system. Motion: emergent property of sequence of pictures. Gestalt principles: laws that describe how we organize visual input, grouping them in certain ways: thought to be innate or acquired rapidly. Simplest scenario: small, enclosed region (object) surrounded completely by larger region (background, figure would have distinct borders/edges, giving it perceptible form, perceived as being in front of the background, background: typically formless/made up of multiple forms. Not one distinct form like the object/figure. Distinguishing figure and object is an automatic process.
