Law of Proximity

Law of Proximity

The Law of Proximity was formulated by the German-American psychologist Wolfgang Kohler (1887-1967). One of the gestalt laws (or gestalt principles) of organization, this law of psychology states that stimuli which are physically or temporally proximate will be perceived as belonging together in a group.

W R Uual, On Seeing Forms (London, 1988)

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