Perception Cast
Gestalt
psychologists searched for rules by which the brain organizes fragments
of sensory data into gestalts (from the German word for “whole”), or
meaningful forms. In pointing out that the whole is more than the sum of
its parts, these researchers showed that we constantly filter sensory
information and infer perceptions in ways that make sense to us. This
truth remains valid, even though contemporary research demonstrates that
sensation and perception are parts of a continuous information
processing system, involving both bottom-up and top-down processing.
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