What is the Gestalt Principle?

Gestalt psychology was born in 19 12. It is a research group composed of German psychologists, trying to explain how human vision works. They observed many important visual phenomena and catalogued them.

One of the most basic findings is that human vision is holistic: our visual system automatically constructs the structure of visual input and perceives shapes, figures and objects at the nervous system level, instead of just seeing disconnected edges, lines and areas. Gestalt means "shape" and "figure" in German, so these theories are called gestalt principle of visual perception.

Gestalt principle conclusion

1, proximity principle

Objects at close range often form a whole.

2, the principle of similarity

Parts that are similar in one respect (shape, movement, direction, color, etc.). ) tend to form a whole and emphasize content.

3, the principle of closure

Parts that belong to each other and form a closed entity often form a whole.

4. Vision tends to perceive continuous forms, so as to connect elements together instead of discrete fragments.