our creation of a meaningful figure from the synthesis of selected portions of the incoming stimulus input that was proposed in 1967 by U.S. cognitive psychologist Ulric Neisser.
FIGURAL SYNTHESIS: "In figural synthesis we create a whole image from parts."
Cite this page: N., Sam M.S., "FIGURAL SYNTHESIS," in PsychologyDictionary.org, May 11, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/figural-synthesis/ (accessed March 21, 2023).
