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THE FACTOR OF PROXIMITY: An attempt to specify its critical conditions
Author(s) -
Lie Ivar
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1964.tb01418.x
Subject(s) - gestalt psychology , psychology , perception , row , horizontal and vertical , factor (programming language) , cognitive psychology , social psychology , geometry , mathematics , computer science , database , neuroscience , programming language
Two experiments were undertaken for the purpose of investigating whether the Factor of Proximity, operative in perceptual organization according to Gestalt theory, should be specified with reference to the perceived or to the objective spacing of the elements of a stimulus field. The results indicate that a series of dots arranged in horizontal and vertical rows is more readily grouped in vertical than in horizontal lines. This finding implies that the Factor of Proximity cannot be exactly specified either in terms of the perceived or the objective spacing of the elements to be grouped.