Boundary Extension
A cognitive bias where people remember scenes as being more expansive than they actually were.
39 topics found for
“visual perception”
Repetition Blindness
A phenomenon where people fail to recognize a repeated item in a visual sequence, impacting information processing and perception.
Constancy
The perception of objects as unchanging despite changes in sensory input, such as changes in lighting, distance, or angle.
Common Fate
A Gestalt principle stating that elements moving in the same direction are perceived as a group or a single entity.
Change Blindness
A phenomenon where users fail to notice significant changes in their visual field.
Reification
A key aspect of Gestalt psychology describing the mind's ability to fill in gaps to create a whole object from incomplete elements.
Aesthetic-Usability Effect
The phenomenon where users perceive aesthetically pleasing designs as more usable, regardless of the actual usability.
Connectedness
A Gestalt principle suggesting that elements are perceived as a single unit or group if they share an organizing visual cue like bullet points, or connecting lines.
Gestalt Theory
A set of principles describing how the human mind organizes visual information into meaningful wholes.