Visual perception is our ability to interpret and understand, through sight, all the information offered to us by our environment, our reality. For more than 100 years, several psychologists have been trying to understand how our brain assimilates the environment and allows us to function in our daily lives. Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) theorized about the way in which we receive information and interpret it, but it was not until the beginning of the 20th century that Max Wertheimer and his Gestalt School discovered how visual perception really works. They developed principles or laws that summarized the ways in which we understand and process information: