ABSTRACT
Paolo Bozzi’s opening paragraph characterizes his contribution as defining a new unification factor to be added to M. Wertheimer’s system. Furthermore, the method he uses in exploring the specific effect of the new factor is precisely in line with the method originally devised by Wertheimer, and referred to as a paradigm throughout the Gestalt tradition. A peculiarity of Bozzi’s discussion of the order in depth is that he examines the property in discrete patterns of dots. One feature is that the dependence studied by Bozzi goes from properties of a whole. The view that Wertheimer’s laws of perceptual unification may be interpreted as principles of intra-perceptual dependence, or results of “Experimental Phenomenology” of vision, is illustrated by Bozzi. The perceptual objects examined by Paolo Bozzi in the study are patterns of dots distributed over regions of the pictorial surface according to regular schemes, that is, regions covered by regular dotted textures.
