Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 - Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Various
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[8] Fechner, G. Th., 'Elem. d. Psychophysik,' Leipzig, 1889; 2.
Theil, S. 328. I have already said that these filled spaces were invariably overestimated and that the slower the movement, the greater, in general, is the overestimation. In addition to the facts just stated I found also, what Hall and Donaldson[9] discovered, that an increase in the pressure of a moving point diminishes the apparent distance. [9] Hall, G. St., and Donaldson, H.H., 'Motor Sensations on the Skin,' _Mind_, 1885, X., p. 557. Nichols,[10] however, says that heavy movements seem longer and light ones shorter. [10] _Op. citat.,_ p. 98. V. There are several important matters which might properly have been mentioned in an earlier part of this paper, in connection with the experiments to which they relate, but which I have designedly omitted, in order not to disturb the continuity in the development of the central object of the research. The first of these is the question of the influence of visualization on the judgments of cutaneous distances. This is in many ways a most important question, and confronts one who is making studies in tactual space everywhere. The reader may have already noticed that I have said but little about the |
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