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ADAPTATION TO PRISMS: CHANGE IN INTERNALLY REGISTERED EYE‐POSITION
Author(s) -
CRASKE B.
Publication year - 1967
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.2044-8295.1967.tb01089.x
Subject(s) - psychology , adaptation (eye) , position (finance) , optometry , eye movement , body position , constant (computer programming) , computer vision , cognitive psychology , communication , physical medicine and rehabilitation , computer science , neuroscience , programming language , medicine , finance , economics
It was shown that subjects who inspected immobile parts of their own body through ophthalmic prisms subsequently pointed incorrectly towards visual targets with both hands, i.e. they pointed as if signals derived from the system responsible for positioning the eye had been changed by a constant. It was further shown by a direct method that the subjects' appreciation of eye‐position had indeed undergone a change as a result of such inspection, and that it was of an order great enough to explain the observed changes in pointing behaviour.