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A Method for Testing ‘Simulated’ Visual Field Defects
Author(s) -
INGLIS JAMES,
MACKAY H. A.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1963.tb00377.x
Subject(s) - complaint , blindness , field (mathematics) , visual field , psychology , cognitive psychology , optometry , mathematics , medicine , neuroscience , law , political science , pure mathematics
It was required to discover if a patient's complaint of blindness in the upper field of vision were simulated or not. The results of an attempt to investigate this problem by conditioning techniques proved ambiguous. A technique was devised which gave unequivocal results.