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According to the Gestalt rule of good continuation, image contours are expected to be continuous and smooth (small and constant local curvature); thus, two proximate primitives in a group are expected to be either nearly collinear, or co circular.
Second, a basic principle of perception (the Gestalt principle of good continuation; Kellman [2000]) leads people to interpret a continuous line as a single entity.
It has also been shown that Gestalt factor of good continuation is critical for contour integration [88].
The authors suggest that the difficulty in seeing the nested relationships in the ladder results from the Gestalt principle of good continuation.
In the diagonal cladogram format, most continuous lines represent multiple branching points, but people tend to interpret them as if no branching has occurred because of good continuation.
But the brain is biased to connect lines along the simplest possible path – the principle of "good continuation" – leading us to conjure up the illusion that we are seeing through two, overlapping glass mountains.
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We proposed and found support for one method of breaking good continuation and improving students' understanding of the hierarchical structure of the ladder format.
Amodal completion is affected by many factors [ 19], such as (common) motion, regularity of edges (good continuation or so-called relatability, [ 20]), and various kinds of pictorial depth cues.
We suspect that such placeholders would serve the cognitive/perceptual purpose of breaking good continuation, thereby facilitating students' ability to accurately interpret the ladders.
However, there are other conditions where the grouping of image elements on the basis of connectedness and good continuation is associated with substantial delays (Crundall, Dewhurst, & Underwood, 2008; Jolicoeur, Ullman, & MacKay, 1986 , 1991 Pringle & Egeth, 1988; Roelfsema, Scholte, & Spekreijse, 1999).
A la mode received praise as a good continuation of the series, but was also criticized for offering nothing new.
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