Who said determining the cause and effect was easy?
The clever folk over at Cognitive Daily showed us some experiments that suggest that determining cause and effect relationships depends on what you are looking and how things are grouped.
Nearly 100 years after Gestalt psychologists developed principles of grouping, suggesting that much of our perception of causal relationships is due to how we group objects, this research suggests that grouping does not explain all of how we perceive causal relationships. Instead, the critical factor appears to be where we focus our attention.
Be prepared to get a little dotty 🙂
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