Origins
The principles of grouping (or Gestalt laws of grouping) are a set of principles in
psychology, first proposed by Gestalt psychologists to account for the observation that humans naturally
perceive objects as organized patterns and objects, a principle known as Prägnanz. Gestalt psychologists
argued that these principles exist because the mind has an innate disposition to perceive patterns in the
stimulus based on certain rules. These principles are organized into five categories: Proximity, Similarity,
Continuity, Closure, and Connectedness.
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