New conditions on the role of color in perceptual organization and an extension to how color influences reading
Color is one among many attributes that are involved in the similarity principle. Grouping by color is believed to be less effective when compared with other attributes such as shape and luminance. The main purpose of this work is to explore the role played by color in determining visual gr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Drustvo Psihologa Srbije
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Psihologija |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0048-5705/2014/0048-57051403319P.pdf |
| Summary: | Color is one among many attributes that are involved in the similarity
principle. Grouping by color is believed to be less effective when compared
with other attributes such as shape and luminance. The main purpose of this
work is to explore the role played by color in determining visual grouping
and wholeness, not only in relation to further similarity attributes but also
to other principles such as proximity, good continuation and past experience.
Conditions, different from those used by Gestalt psychologists, were chosen,
and aimed to understand how color can influence visual organization and
through it, other perceptual and complex processes such as reading and visual
word recognition. In fact, involving cognitive and metacognitive domains,
permits exploration of broader issues concerning perception, memory,
knowledge, representation and learning, where color can express its
biological advantages for humans more clearly. These processes can be
assimilated to the Gestalt past experience considered as a principle of its
own kind not fully explored in relation to the other principles. As a
consequence, these conditions allow color to be pitted against past
experience and against a number of principles at the same time. The results
demonstrated that color can strongly influence grouping, shape and the
process of segmentation of words involved in the reading task. Therefore,
color not only is one among the many principles of grouping but an essential
component for the foundation of the more complex organization aimed at
creating wholeness, part-whole formation and fragmentation. |
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| ISSN: | 0048-5705 1451-9283 |