Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 - Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Various
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_C_ (50) - 8.02 11.82 9.47 - 48.14 48.14 9.52
_F_ (50) + 78.88 78.88 2.89 + 25.54 25.54 1.98 _G_ (50) - 22.56 24.64 6.58 -101.20 101.20 7.39 _H_ (50) - 83.84 83.84 11.78 -230.20 230.20 11.88 _J_ (50) +315.64 315.64 18.16 +120.12 120.12 9.01 Average: + 55.96 102.96 9.78 -44.98 104.84 7.96 Horizontal Planes. Observer. Const. Err. Av. Dev. Mean Var. _C_ (50) - 27.86 27.86 9.58 _G_ (50) - 73.84 73.84 7.59 _J_ (50) +243.72 243.72 18.52 For every individual observer, the position of the disc on the screen has been affected by each change in the direction of these visible lines. In every case, also, its location when these boundaries lay in a horizontal plane was intermediate between the other two. The importance of such relations in the objects of the visual field as factors in our ordinary determination of the subjective horizon is made evident by these experimental results. They become construction lines having assumed permanence in the world of visual-motor experience. The conception of unchanging spatial relations in the fundamental lines of perspective vision receives constant reinforcement from the facts of daily experience. The influence of the above-described changes in experimental conditions is mediated through their effect upon the location of the focus of the limiting and perspective lines of vision. As the plane of the upper boundaries of the enclosing walls was elevated and depressed the intersection of the two systems of lines was correspondingly raised and lowered, and in |
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