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CONDITIONED AFTER‐IMAGES. I
Author(s) -
DAVIES PETER
Publication year - 1974
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.2044-8295.1974.tb01394.x
Subject(s) - psychology , stimulus (psychology) , audiology , cognitive psychology , visual perception , electrophysiology , communication , perception , neuroscience , medicine
Two experiments are described in which subjects were presented with brief illuminations of a structured target preceded by an auditory stimulus; both experiments indicate that visual after‐images may be evoked, after such training, by the presentation of the auditory stimulus alone. Similar results have been obtained by the Popovs and Bzhalava in the Soviet Union, but little is known about the experimental designs employed by these authors. The results obtained in the present experiments are discussed in terms of related electrophysiological evidence from infra‐human subjects obtained in the course of cross‐modality interaction studies, and the adequacy of purely peripheral explanations for visual after‐image phenomena is questioned.