But in reality, all that's there are three white “pac men.” We see the triangle because our brains take the ambiguous visual information and organize it into something that makes sense to us-something familiar, orderly, symmetrical, and that we understand. If you’re like most people, you probably see a triangle.
In the 1920s, a group of German psychologists developed theories around how people perceive the world around them, called Gestalt principles.įor example, what do you see when you look at this image?
The human brain is wired to see structure, logic, and patterns.
