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VISUAL PERCEPTION INTRODUCTION Many of the principals that govern human visual perception were first identified by the German School of Gestalt Psychology. Gestalt means "form", "shape", "pattern" with the emphasis being on "the whole". Gestalt Psychologists believe that the mind is active and constantly looking for meanings especially in relation to visual perception, for example, recognising a face. Perception involves both the senses of seeing and thinking. Our perceptions sometimes misrepresent the world. When our perception of an object does not match its true physical characteristics, we have experienced an illusion. Some illusions may be perceived in a certain way depending upon the viewers personality or expectations. Illusions are simple demonstrations of the "active mind". Illusions can be identified as distortions (or geometric illusions), ambiguous or reversible) figures, paradoxical figures (or impossible objects) and fictions (which help explain how we perceive that objects possess specific shapes). A well known reversible figure is Boring's "Old/Young Woman. The picture of the...

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