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Gestalt Proximity Principle
Visual elements that are nearer one another are more likely to be perceived as a group, although connection, similarity, region and task can compete with distance.
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Checked source previewAcademic paper
A Century of Gestalt Psychology in Visual Perception I: Perceptual Grouping and Figure–Ground Organization
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- What it supports
- Gestalt principles remain useful context-sensitive regularities, while modern evidence specifies interactions, mechanisms and limits rather than treating them as inviolable laws.
- Where it may not transfer
- A broad narrative review does not provide one interface effect size or accessibility rule. Visual grouping evidence must be tested with the actual content and task.
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