Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 - Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Various
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of experiments to report, which seems to me to prove beyond the
possibility of a doubt the correctness of my position. These experiments were made with the apparatus shown in Fig. 10. The subjects proceeded precisely as before. The finger-tip was passed over the filled space, and then out over the open space, until an equivalent distance was measured off. But while the subject was drawing his fingers over the spaces, the block _A_ was moved in either direction by means of the lever _B_. The subjects were all the while kept ignorant of the fact that the block was being moved. They all expressed great surprise on being told, after the experiments were over, that the block had been moved under the finger-tip through such long distances without their being able to detect it. The block always remained stationary as the finger passed over one space, but was moved either with or against the finger as it passed over the other space. TABLE XII. A B C D E 4 7.1 2.6 2.4 6.5 5 8.3 3.1 3.3 8.7 6 8.2 3.3 4.1 9.2 7 9.7 3.6 3.7 10.1 8 10.5 3.7 4.5 10.6 9 12.4 4.8 5.1 11.5 10 13.1 4.7 5.3 13.2 11 13.3 5.3 6.1 14.6 12 13.7 6.9 7.2 12.7 13 14.6 7.5 8.1 13.2 14 15.3 8.2 9.4 15.6 |
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