“…Indeed, low spatial frequencies appear to count for more than shape (Green, 1986b;Ramachandran, Ginsburg, & Anstis, 1983), and the most potent factor is found to be spatiotemporal proximity. Although there are examples in which shape or color do play a role in matching (e.g., Green, 1986aGreen, , 1989Shechter, Hochstein, & Hillman, 1988), the effect of these factors is revealed only when the much stronger factor of proximity is carefully controlled for. This tendency to match figures across successive displays on the basis of proximity irrespective of shape or color correspondence has been called the nearest neighbor principle (Ullman, 1978(Ullman, , 1979Wertheimer, 1912Wertheimer, /1961.…”