When we see a painting by Georges Seurat, the famous French impressionist, we tend to experience it as a rendering of a lovely landscape rather than as the series of separate, differently colored dots of which the painting is actually composed. This phenomenon illustrates an important point made by ________.

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Gestalt psychologists studied how the human mind perceives and organizes sensory information. They emphasized the importance of how the whole picture or pattern is perceived and organized, rather than simply the individual elements. This is illustrated by the example of viewing a Seurat painting, as the viewer perceives the whole landscape rather than just the separate dots of color that make it up.

When We See a Painting by Georges Seurat, the Famous