Common region: a new principle of perceptual grouping.

By Stephen E. Palmer. 1992

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On the Binding Problem in Artificial Neural Networks (2020, background): “Several other Gestalt laws have been found over the years (Alais et al., 1998; Palmer, 1992; Palmer and Rock, 1994), including for other sensory modalities, such as audio (Bregman, 1994) and tactile (Gallace and Spence, 2011).”
Rethinking perceptual organization: The role of uniform connectedness (1994, background): “…outcome was determined by the presence of the occluding strip, which divides the elements into two regions according to grouping by "common region" (Palmer, 1992), can be ruled out by the control ) to demonstrate that grouping by achromatic color is based on perceived lightness rather than an…”
Learning to group discrete graphical patterns (2017, unknown): “And in turn, an understanding of pattern structures often relies on perceptual grouping [Köhler 1929; Palmer 1992, 1977].”
A Century of Gestalt Psychology in Visual Perception I. Perceptual Grouping and Figure-Ground Organization (2012, background): “Common region is the tendency for elements that lie within the same bounded area (or region) to be grouped together (Palmer, 1992).”
eulerAPE: Drawing Area-Proportional 3-Venn Diagrams Using Ellipses (2014, background): “Closed curves also aid set analysis due to the perceptual grouping principles of common regions [3] and closure [4].”
Knowledge Maps as Scaffolds for Cognitive Processing (2002, background): “Common region ( Palmer, 1992 ) is a relatively new gestalt principle of organization where objects that share a common region of space can be perceived as grouped together.”