Continuity is another principle from Gestalt psychology that suggests our brains prefer patterns and will perceive components in an image as continuous forming either an unbroken line or pattern rather than separately.
Consider watching a movie with subtitles. Even if words appear on different lines, your brain reads them continuously as one sentence because it prefers continuity over seeing each word individually.
Closure: The principle that we fill in gaps to create a complete, whole object. This is why we often see shapes or lines as continuous even if they aren't.
Pattern Recognition: The cognitive process that matches information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory.
Perceptual Organization: The process by which stimuli are organized into meaningful units.
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