Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 - Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Various
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stopping, through an arc of 40°.
[Illustration: PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW. MONOGRAPH SUPPLEMENT, 17. PLATE I. Fig. 3. HOLT ON EYE-MOVEMENT.] To take the first case, Fig. 3:1. The eye fixates the light _L_, then sweeps 40° toward the right to the point _B'_. The retina is stimulated throughout the movement, _l-l'_. These conditions yield the phenomenon of both streaks, appearing as shown on the black rectangle. In the second case (Fig. 3:2) the wall _W_ is in position and the eye so adjusted in the eye-rest that the light _L_ is not seen until the eye has moved about 10° to the right, that is, until the axis of vision is at _Ex_. Clearly, then, the image of _L_ falls at first a little to the right of the fovea, and continues in indirect vision to the end of the movement. The stimulated part of the retina is _l-l'_ (Fig. 3:2). Here, then, we have no stimulation of the eye during the first part of its movement. The corresponding appearance of the streak is also shown. Only the correctly localized streak is seen, extending from the light _L_ toward the right but not quite reaching _B'_. Thus by cutting out that portion of the stimulation which was given during the first part of the movement, we have eliminated the whole of the false image, and the right-hand (foveal) part of the correct image. Fig. 3:3 shows the reverse case, in which the stimulation is given only during the first part of the movement. The wall is fixed on the right of _L_, and the eye so adjusted that _L_ remains in sight until the axis of vision reaches position _Ex_, that is, until it has moved about 10°. A short strip of the retina next the fovea is here |
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