goodness of configuration

the quality of a shape or form that has high levels of simplicity, regularity, symmetry, or continuity. Gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Köhler speculated that the mind tends to perceive more goodness of configuration than may actually exist in a shape. See also closure; gestalt principles of organization; Prägnanz.

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July 27th 2024

efference copy

see corollary discharge.