Bell Work What is Gestalt Psychology Neurons that

Bell Work • What is Gestalt Psychology?

Neurons that code for significant stimuli FEATURE DETECTORS

Feature detectors • Filter out the insignificant stimuli, like background noise. – Humans focus on faces, ignore other visual stimuli – Cats look for edges, which occur more in organisms than in the “background” • Charles Fechner • Allows for selective attention

Gestalt Principles of Perceptual Organization

What Does Perceptual Organization Mean?

The Law of Proximity • What is proximity? • Objects that are close together tend to be perceived as a group.

The Law of Similarity • What is similarity? • Similar stimuli tend to be grouped. • Makes proximity even stronger

The Law of Closure • What is closure? • Stimuli tends to be grouped into complete figures

The Law of Good Continuation • What is continuation? • Stimuli tend to be grouped to minimize change/discontinuity. • What do the sticks look like?

The Law of Symmetry • What is symmetry? • Regions bound by symmetrical figures tend to be perceived as coherent figures.

The Law of Simplicity • Ambiguous stimuli tend to be favored in terms of the simples form possible.

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What law of percept. org. is this?

• Law of simplicity

• Law of closure

• Law of good continuation

• Law of proximity

• Law of similarity

• Law of symmetry

Wrap Up 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Law of proximity Law of similarity Law of closure Law of good continuation Law of symmetry Law of simplicity Draw an example for the one you are assigned