When we listen to a favorite piece of music, we tend to experience the melodies and harmonies as a beautiful single piece of music rather than as the series of separate notes of which the song is actually composed. This phenomenon illustrates an important point made by ________.

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The phenomenon described in the question is an example of the Gestalt principle of perceptual organization, which states that we tend to perceive objects as wholes rather than as the sum of their individual parts.

When We Listen to a Favorite Piece of Music, We