PS260 Lecture Notes - Gestalt Psychology, Necker Cube, Distributed Knowledge
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Class 2, lecture 3, chapter 3: recognizing objects. Form perception is the process through which the basic shape and size of an object are seen. Object recognition is the process through which the object is identified. Object recognition begins with the detection of simple visual features. An early twentieth-century movement known as gestalt psychology captured this idea as the whole is different from the sum of its parts. The necker cube is an example of perception going beyond the information given. : two different perceptions of depth are possible, given the lines on the page. In the face-vase figure, two interpretations are possible, each based on a different figure/ground organization: this again shows that perception goes beyond the information given. These examples might suggest that perception proceeds in two stages: one where visual features are processed, and a later stage in which perception goes beyond the information given.
