Shape Constancy
Shape constancy is the tendency to perceive an object as having the same shape regardless of its orientation or the angle from which we view it.
An example of this is a door opening. We know the door is a rectangle, and when it's opened we see it as a smaller, trapezoid. We still recognize that it’s in the shape of a rectangle, but really, from that angle, the image processed by our retina is that of a trapezoid. Our brain compensates for the distortion of the shape by taking into account visual cues about distance and depth to keep our perception of the frame constant.
-Emma O
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