Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 - Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Various
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pendulum, the eye moving with it.
The speed of the pendulum must be determined, such that if _I_ lies in the front groove (Fig. 5, _x_) and the eye is at rest, the image will clearly show two phases of color when _T_ swings past on the pendulum. With _T_ and _I_ as described above, a very slow pendulum shows the image green, red (narrow), and green, in succession. A very fast pendulum shows only a horizontal straw-yellow band on a green field (Fig. 8:5). There is but one phase and no feeling of succession. Between these two rates is one which shows two phases--the first a green field with a horizontal, reddish-orange band (Fig. 8:3), the second quickly following, in which the band is straw-yellow (5). It might be expected that this first phase would be preceded by an entirely green phase, since green is at first exposed. Such is however not the case. The straw-yellow of the last phase is of course the fusion-color of the red and green glasses. It would be gray but that the two colors are not perfectly complementary. Since the arrangement of colors in _T_ is bilaterally symmetrical, the successive phases are the same in whichever direction the pendulum swings. [Illustration: MONOGRAPH SUPPLEMENT 17. PLATE IV. Fig. 8. HOLT ON EYE-MOVEMENT.] It is desirable to employ the maximum rate of pendulum which will give the two phases. For this the illumination should be very moderate, since the brighter it is, the slower must be the pendulum. With the degree of illumination used in the experiments described, it was found that the pendulum must fall from a height of only 9.5° of its arc: a total swing of 19°. The opening of _T_, which is 9 cm. wide, then |
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