Sunday, August 30, 2009

The Gestalt laws of perceptual organization


In 1912, Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka and Ivo Kohler questioned sensations theory were not enough to explain the entire perceptive phenomenon (Goldstein, EB., 2001). One of the basic principles of Gestalt psychology they demonstrated is “The whole is different than the sum of its parts.” The laws of perceptual organization are a series of rules that specify how we organize small parts into wholes by vision.

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