1 The seminal work on common fate is “Untersuchungen zür Lehre von der Gestalt, II” [Laws of Organization in Perceptual Forms] by Max Wertheimer, Psychologische Forschung, 1923, vol. 4, p. 301–350, reprinted in A Source Book of Gestalt Psychology by Willis D. Ellis (ed.), Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1999, p. 71v88.

2 See, for example, “Generalized Common Fate: Grouping by Common Luminance Changes” by Allison B. Sekuler and Patrick J. Bennett, Psychological Science, 2001, Vol. 12(6), p. 437–444.

3 “Common Fate as a Determinant of Figure-Ground Organization” by Joseph Lloyd Brooks, Stanford-Berkeley Talk, 2000, Stanford University, May 16, 2000.

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