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Perception Lab Gestalt Principles

This sequence explores Gestalt psychology and how the human brain organizes sensory information into meaningful patterns. Students progress from historical foundations to identifying specific principles (proximity, similarity, closure, etc.) in abstract diagrams and real-world media.

Gestalt Origins and Wholes

Students are introduced to the core concept that 'the whole is different from the sum of its parts' through a comparison of structuralist and Gestalt approaches.

Grouping Proximity and Similarity

A workshop focusing on how the brain groups elements based on spatial distance (proximity) and physical resemblance (similarity).

Filling the Gaps

Exploring principles that allow us to perceive continuous forms and closed shapes even when parts are missing or intersected.

Focus and Grounds

Focuses on distinguishing objects from backgrounds and how reversible figures create perceptual ambiguity.

Design Deconstruction Project

Applying Gestalt principles to deconstruct complex advertisements and web designs to see how they influence behavior.

Perception Lab Gestalt Principles

This sequence explores Gestalt psychology and how the human brain organizes sensory information into meaningful patterns. Students progress from historical foundations to identifying specific principles (proximity, similarity, closure, etc.) in abstract diagrams and real-world media.