Psychological Review
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ISBN13: 9780217039796
Paperback|9780217039796
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Pursuing a course, in dealing with the effect of distance on the left hand, similar to that which gave us Fig. 3 for the effect of colors, we get Fig. 4. It will be seen from Fig. 4 that the proportion of responses with the left hand iricreases up to the 13-inch distance, which is represented by 100, and then declines rapidly. From this it is seen that the effect of distance is not exactly what we should expect, but the fact that various colors were the stimuli probably renders this last question too complex to be answered by the experiments we have been dealing with. To answer this question properly it appears best to take a large number of experiments with a single object. Rufus E. Marsden. EXPERIMENTS IN THE PERCEPTION OF THE THIRD DIMENSION. I have frequently had opportunity to experiment at random on the perception of solidity, and as the results exhibit some bearing upon the study of the so-called motor factors in perception these results may be described. The experiment which I have tried many times, and especially when travelling, which affords good opportunities for the experiments, consists in testing both binocular and monocular vision in the way described below. It is perhaps often remarked that favorable conditions will enable the observer to see in the opposite direction from which the objects are situated the images of any given thing, as if seen through the solid matter toward which the observer is actually looking. Changes of adjustment will affect the results somewhat. That is, adjustment to the distance necessary to fuse images from the real objects in the actual field of vision will prevent the perception of objects with reflected images from the opposite direction. But adjustment to the apparent objects will prevent the perception of the real...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217039796 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217039790 |
| Weight | 1.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.22 In |
| List Price | $33.31 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 546 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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