Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 - Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Various
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of the image of _i_ at all moments of the exposure.
[Illustration: PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW. MONOGRAPH SUPPLEMENT, 17. PLATE PLATE II. Fig. 4. Fig. 6. HOLT ON EYE-MOVEMENT.] Thus much of preliminary discussion to show how, by means of a pendulum, identical stimulations can be given to the moving and to the resting eye. We return to the problem. It is to find out whether a stimulation given during an eye-movement can be perceived if its after-image is so brief as wholly to elapse before the end of the movement. If a period of anæsthesia is to be demonstrated, two observations must be made. First, that the stimulation is bright enough to be _unmistakably visible_ when given to the eye at rest; second, that it is not visible when given to the moving eye. Hence, we shall have three cases. Case 1. A control, in which the stimulation is proved intense enough to be seen by the eye at rest. Case 2. In which the same stimulation is given to the eye during movement. Case 3. Another control, to make sure that no change in the adaptation or fatigue of the eye has intervened during the experiments to render the eye insensible to the stimulation. Fig. 5 shows the exact arrangement of the experiment. The figure represents a horizontal section at the eye-level of the pendulum of Fig. 4, with accessories. _E_ is the eye which moves between the two |
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