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Objective 11/13/15 Provided notes & an activity SWBAT discuss Gestalt Psychology’s contribution to perception. Agenda: Do Now-quick review monocular vs. binocular vision Notes Activity
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Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception
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Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception
Gestalt – Movement in experimental psychology which began prior to WWI. We perceive objects as well-organized patterns rather than separate components. “The whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts.” Based on the concept of “grouping”.
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Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception
W.E. Hill, 1915 German postcard, 1880 We impose visual organization on stimuli
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Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception
Illusory Contours The Kanisza triangle as figure-ground illusory contours
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Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception
Three Main Principles: Grouping (proximity, similarity, continuity, closure) Goodness of figures Figure/ground relationships
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Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception
Grouping: Law of Proximity
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Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception
Figure/Ground relationships Figure – seen as the foreground Ground – seen as the background Contours – “belong” to the figure
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Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception
Reversible Figure/Ground relationship
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Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception
Reversible Figure/Ground relationship Can be affected by the principle of smallness: Smaller areas tend to be seen as figures against a larger background.
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Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception
Reversible Figure/Ground Relationship: Tessellation – interlocking figure/ground M.C. Escher
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Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception
Gestalt laws of Grouping organize the visual scene into units The Law of Pragnanz, or Goodness of Figure creates the simplest most meaningful pattern Figure/Ground relationships define important parts of the scene
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Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception
Problems with Gestalt theory: It is a phenomenological approach Some of the terms are vague (e.g. what is the “simplest” organization?)
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