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Visual Perception - A highly complex integrative activity involving the understanding of what is seen by the eyes.  Visual Perception includes:

1. Spatial Relations - ability to orient one’s body in space and to perceive the position of objects in relation to oneself and other objects. 

2. Visual discrimination - the ability to discriminate dominant features of different objects. Ex. position, shapes, forms, colors

3. Figure - Ground ability to distinguish an object from background objects

4. Visual closure - ability to perceive a whole figure when only fragments are presented

5. Visual Memory - ability to recognize one stimulus item after a brief interval