A German psychological school of thought that brought forth the concept of gestalt, the whole being greater than the sum of its parts, but more importantly expanded psychologist's understanding of how the brain organizes sensations into perceptions and how it groups stimuli. The Gestalt College is a part of Perceptual Psychology, the psychologists who enjoy optical illusions and M. C. Escher.
According to the Gestalt College, the sensations
perceived by the eyes are grouped in two ways. First the
brain selects what it considers to be the most obvious foreground and background. Then with each of the elements of foreground and background, the braind has a tendency to further group them as follows: Proximity, Similarity, Connectedness, Continuity of Patterns, and Closure.