 Produce an after-image of the sun and look at your finger-tip ; it will be smaller than your nail. Project it on the table, and it will be as big as a strawberry ; on the wall, as large as a plate ; on yonder mountain, bigger than a house. And yet it...  Mind - Page 2851922Full view - About this book
 | William James - Psychology - 1890 - 726 pages
...alluded a while ago to the extraordinary ambiguity of the retinal image as a revealer of magnitude. Produce an after-image of the sun and look at your...mountain, bigger than a house. And yet it is an unchanged * Archlv f. Ophthal.. Bd. xvn. Abth. 2, pp. 44-« (1871). retinal impression. Prepare a sheet with... | |
 | William James - Psychology - 1908 - 722 pages
...alluded a while ago to the extraordinary ambiguity of the retinal image as a revealer of magnitude. Produce an after-image of the sun and look at your...will be as big as a strawberry; on the wall, as large asa plate; on yonder mountain, bigger than a house. And yet it is an unchanged »Archiv f. Ophthal.,... | |
 | George Frederick Stout - Psychology - 1899 - 686 pages
...of after-images. " Produce an after-image of the sun and look at your finger-tip; it will be smallei than your nail. Project it on the table, and it will...house. And yet it is an unchanged retinal impression."* An actual object producing a retinal excitation of the same extent would vary in size according to... | |
 | George Frederick Stout - Psychology - 1899 - 668 pages
...impression mainly determines perception of magnitude. This is well seen in the case of after-images. " Produce an after-image of the sun and look at your finger-tip ; it will be smallei than your nail. Project it on the table, and it will be as big as a strawberry ; on the wall,... | |
 | George Frederick Stout - Psychology - 1899 - 692 pages
...impression mainly determines perception of magnitude. This is well seen in the case of after-images. " Produce an after-image of the sun and look at your finger-tip ; it will b(? sntallei than your nail. Project it on the table, and it will lie as big as a strawberry ; on the... | |
 | William Mitchell - Mind and body - 1907 - 588 pages
...Produce an after-image of the sun and look at your finger-tip : it will be smaller than your xn. 3. nail. Project it on the table, and it will be as big...plate ; on yonder mountain, bigger than a house." l Therefore it would be difficult to distinguish between what has, and what has not been learnt, and... | |
 | William Mitchell - Mind and body - 1907 - 570 pages
...learning. This can also be seen very easily from the after -sensation, usually called the after-image. " Produce an after-image of the sun and look at your finger-tip : it will be smaller than your xn. 3. nail. Project it on the table, and it will be as big as a strawberry ; on the wall, as large... | |
 | George Frederick Stout - Psychology - 1915 - 802 pages
...impression mainly determines perception of magnitude. This is well seen in the case of after-images. " Produce an after-image of the sun and look at your...yonder mountain, bigger than a house. And yet it is an uuchanged retinal impression." ' An actual thing producing a retinal excitation of the same extent... | |
 | George Frederick Stout - Psychology - 1915 - 800 pages
...perception of magnitude. This is well seen iu the case of after-inmges. " Produce an after-image of the suii and look at your finger-tip ; it will be smaller than...house. And yet it is an unchanged retinal impression." l An actual thing producing a retinal excitation of the same extent would vary in size according to... | |
 | Norman Kemp Smith - Knowledge, Theory of - 1924 - 264 pages
...and given.2 But, as we find, it varies freely, independently of what is happening in the retina. " Produce an after-image of the sun and look at your...be as big as a strawberry; on the wall, as large as 1 I shall have to omit his argument in favour of the non-subjectivity of ' perspective appearances.'... | |
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