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Experimental Studies of a Perceptual Anomaly

IV. The Effect of Monocular Vision on Rotation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

A. J. Yates*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London

Extract

This is the fourth of a series of articles reporting an investigation into the Block Design Rotation Effect. This effect was first observed in some patients while they were doing the Goldstein Block Design Test, in which the subject has to reproduce patterns with the aid of coloured cubes. Some patients, while completing the designs correctly, would leave the completed pattern in a rotated position without apparently being aware of this (2). Such rotation frequently reached 45° (Illustration 1) but rarely exceeded this amount.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1954 

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References

1. Holway, A. H., and Boring, E. G., ‘Determinants of Apparent Visual Size with Distance Variant’, Amer. J. Psychol., 1941, 54, 21.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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3. Idem , ‘Experimental Studies of a Perceptual Anomaly. II. Confirmatory and Explanatory Experiments’, ibid., 1952, 98, 605.Google Scholar
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