PSYCH 1X03 Study Guide - Emergence, David H. Hubel, Pattern Recognition
23 Apr 2014
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1920s and 1930s, german psychologists began to study how ppl perceive the world around them. Believed: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. ie. ppl perceive the whole stimulus rather than each individual part. The movement was in part a reaction to the structuralist approach(everything could be reduced to basic elements) in vogue at the time. Motion is an emergent property (of the sequence of pictures). Gestalt principles = laws that describe how we organize visual input in certain ways. Thought to be innate, or that we acquire them rapidly. Six gestalt principles: figure-ground = ability to determine what aspect of a visual scene is part of the object itself and what is part of the background. Ex: vase or face: proximity = helps with grouping, says that elements that are close together in space tend to belong together. You also tend to group objects closer together compared to those further apart.
