Perception and optical illusions

Activity Figure-Background for Secondary Education

1. PERCEPTION AND OPTICAL ILLUSIONS

2. PERCEPTION TO SEE ≠ TO PERCEIVE Is the process of selecting and interpreting information received through the senses to produce a meaning

3. PERCEPTION PROCESS Stimuli: Sight Sound Texture Smell Taste

4. GESTALT LAWS It refers to theories of visual perception developed by German psychologists in the 1920s. These theories describe how people tend to organize visual elements

5. Figure and Background

6. Proximity Logotype by ru_ferret  

7. Closure

8. Similarity Logotype by   vasvari

9. Perception Constants: size constancy

10. Perception Constants: shape constancy

11. Colour constancy

12. Ambiguous images

13. Are the squares A and B the same colour ?

14. Are the squares A and B the same colour ?

15. OPTICAL ILLUSIONS Images that create a perception that in reality, does not match the true image. Optical Illusions can use color, light and patterns to create images that can be misleading to our brains

16. SHAPE ILLUSIONS

17. KINETIC ILLUSIONS

18. IMPOSSIBLE SHAPES

19. OP ART Victor Vasarely . Boo The Op art movement was driven by artists who were interested in investigating perceptual effects. Its years of greatest success was in the mid-1960s

20. http://www.educacionplastica.net/VisPer.htm http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/ http://www.opticalillusion.net/ 22

21. Materials : Black marker or black cardboard Activity

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