Gestalt Organization

• How the brain organizes incomplete information perceptually into a whole.

• “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”• Our experiences, schemas and expectations

allow our brains to complete the picture.

5 types of Gestalts: Similarity, Continuity, Connectedness, Proximity, & Closure

Visual Gestalt tendencies: Figure-Ground…see next slide…

Do you see both words?

Which Gestalt principle is illustrated here?

And which Gestalt here?

And the smiley face is created by using what Gestalt principle?...

What is in the foreground? Background?

And here (2…)?

Binocular Cues—requires eyes

• Retinal disparity: each retina sees a slightly different version of the object and judges it’s dimensions

• Convergence: a neural muscular cue based on the convergence of the eyes which helps the brain judge distance by how the eye has to work to focus on a scene or object.

See next slide for “floating finger sausage” example…

Monocular Cues: Can tell depth w/1

• Linear Perspective• Relative Brightness• Relative Clarity• Relative Size• Relative Height• Relative Motion• Interposition• Texture Gradient

Which is taller—guy in white shirt farther up the trail or the boy in the hat?

Relative ________

Example of what monocular cue for depth?

Relative ______?

These are examples of the _______ Illusion, monocular cues of ________ ______________ (a) and __________

_____________ (b)

_______-______ Illusion

Relative _________?

Relative ______________

Which monocular cue is this?

Perception of Motion

• Phi Phenomenon

• Stroboscopic Movement

• Illusory Motion

Example of _________ _____________?

What about this one…?

And this one…?

________ _______ Psychology Examples