Gestalt psychology is a theory of the mind/brain that proposes that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self organizing tendencies, or that the whole is different from the sum of its part.
Max Wertheimer is the founder of the movement, although the movement was first introduced in philosophy and psychology by Christian von Ehrenfels.
The key principles of the Gestalt systems are emergence, reification, multistability, and invariance.
Emergence is the ability to pull out recognizable objects/shapes out of an image that is actually not made out of real objects/shapes.
Reification is the generative aspect of how you perceive something, it is the way your brain perceives an illusion from the contours it is presented.
Multistability is the ability your mind has to go back and forth within one shape and create two or more shapes. Like the draw a vase and see the faces project everyone has done once in their life.
Invariance is the thing of perception where objects are recognizable even though they have been flipped, rotated, scaled, etc.
The fundamental principle of gestalt perception is the law of prägnanz which says our minds tend to order our experience in a manner that is regular, orderly, symmetric, and simple.
This principle contains the Law of: closer, similarity, proximity, symmetry, continuity, and common fate.
So over all Gestlalt Psychology is pretty cool stuff. It is crazy how complex our mind works on images so that we can understand them on a daily basis.
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