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Gestalt principles
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a group of principles that organise visual perceptual features and that intergrate them into connected patterns or whole forms
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1) Figure-ground
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- viewer perceptually groups and separated some features of a stimulus so that part of a stimulus appears to stand out as an object (the figure) against a plainer background (the ground)
- probably inborn (first perceptual ability to appear after people with cataract regain sight)
- camouflage breaks up figure-ground organisation by blurring the contour of a figure against a background
- can be switched in reversible figures
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2) Closure
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- viewer’s tendency to perceptually complete an incomplete figure by filling in an imaginary contour line so that the figure has a consistent overall form
- reveal powerful tendency to form shapes even with minimal cues
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3) Similarity
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- viewer’s tendency to perceive stimuli that have similar visual features as belonging together and forming a meaningful single unit or group
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4) Proximity
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- whereby stimuli close together in space are perceived as belonging together and forming a meaningful single unit or group
- e.g. three people standing together, one person standing away = group and outsider
