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AN EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED CONFLICT BETWEEN VISION AND PROPRIOCEPTION
Author(s) -
OVER RAY
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1966.tb01034.x
Subject(s) - psychology , proprioception , bar (unit) , set (abstract data type) , distortion (music) , horizontal and vertical , cognitive psychology , social psychology , geometry , computer science , mathematics , neuroscience , amplifier , computer network , physics , bandwidth (computing) , meteorology , programming language
Settings of a bar so that if felt horizontal were examined under conditions where subjects were given false visual information of the slant of the bar. With a distortion of 15° subjects reported that the bar felt horizontal when it in fact looked horizontal. Although for larger distortions most subjects became aware of a conflict between what was seen and felt, few were able to make accurate settings. The bar tended to be set at a slant between the visual horizontal and the physical horizontal. Settings were variable over trials but there was no trend towards greater accuracy. The data indicate that in making spatial judgements more reliance is placed on visual than proprioceptive input.