Gestalt Laws of Perceptual Organization
By Kendra Van Wagner, About.com
The law of similarity holds that things which are similar in some way appear to be grouped together. Grouping can occur in both visual and auditory stimuli.
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- What Are the Gestalt Laws of Perceptual Organization?
- Law of Similarity
- Law of Pragnanz
- Law of Proximity
- Law of Continuity
- Law of Closure
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