HyperDic: law_of_closure

English > 1 sense of the expression law of closure:
NOUNcognitionlaw of closure, closurea Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric
English > law of closure: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition
MeaningA Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric.
Synonymclosure
BroaderGestalt law of organization, Gestalt principle of organizationA principle of Gestalt psychology that identifies factors leading to particular forms of perceptual organization

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