PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Microelectrode, Visual Agnosia, Extrastriate Cortex
1 Jun 2016
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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Believed that ppl perceive the whole stimulus rather than each indiv part. Motion is an emergent property of the sequence of pics (perceptions of the movie in its entirety) Gestalt principles: laws that describe how we organize visual input innate vs acquired: figure-ground: the ability to determine what aspect of a visual scene is part of the obj and what"s part of the background. Obj has borders (give it perceptive form) in front of the background (formless or made up of multiple forms: proximity: elements that are close together in space tend to belong together. If you have a grid made up of alternating row of x and o"s tend to see the columns of the same elements (all x or os) together, rather than grouping together a row of. Xoxo : continuity: perceive a simple, continuous form rather than a combination of awkward forms.
