PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Likelihood Principle, Ponzo Illusion, Ames Room
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Some of our perceptions are the result of unconscious assumptions that we make about the environment. States that we perceive the object that is most likely to have caused the pattern of stimuli we have received. The way elements are grouped together to create larger objects. Proposed a number of laws of perceptual organization. Law of pragnanz (also known as law of good figure or the law of simplicity) Points that, when connected, result in straight or smoothly curving lines are seen as belonging together, and the lines tend to be seen in such a way as to follow the smoothest path. Also, objects that are overlapped by other objects are perceived as continuing behind the overlapping object. Also called law of good figure or law of simplicity. States that every stimulus pattern is seen in such a way as the resulting structure is as simple as possible.
