PSY280H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Principles Of Grouping, Gestalt Psychology, Prosopagnosia
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Computer algorithms don t do a very good job. Illusory contour: a contour that is perceived even though nothing changes from one side of the contour to the other in th. A bit on agnosia (object blindness) and prosopagnosia (face blindness) Principles for grouping the seemingly chaotic multitude of perceptual information into meaningful form ( gestalt in germ. Das ganze ist etwas anderes als die summe seiner teile. "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. " "the whole is other than the sum of the parts. " Good continuation: two elements will tend to group together if they lie on the same contour. Some contours in an image will group because of good continuation. Color-coded likelihood of lines occurring next to a horizontal line in natural scenes, by position and orientation. Closure: tendency to see complete figures or forms even if a picture is incomplete, partially hidden by other objects.
