[tips] Re: inverted goggles on Google

[Marie Helweg-Larsen]

Thanks for sharing, Chris. That is indeed an interesting video. I had one question. The claims video is that you actually eventually see things "correctly" even with the goggles on. That is, at the end of wearing the upside/down goggles the video claims that you see the image correctly. In a video clip I show my students the women wearing the upside/down goggles also adjusts well to the goggles but at the end still sees the world on its head. Can some of you perceptual experts comment on this. Is it perhaps the length of time that you wear the goggles (initially just adjusting but eventually reversing the image) or is the video incorrect? Marie Christopher D. Green wrote: Gabriel Ruiz of the University of Seville alerted me to this astonishing archival film about Theodor Erismannn & Ivo Kohler's inverted goggles experiments (trans. by J. J. Gibson) on Google Video. http://tinyurl.com/36y95c I am not certain, but I believe that it "stars" the researchers themselves. Kohler's famous Scientific American article about the phenomenon was published about 1962. I'm guessing that this film was made somewhat earlier, however, because Erismann died in 1961. Mid-1950s? Regards, Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada   416-736-5115 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo ====================================== --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english -- ********************************************* Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Dickinson College, P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013 Office: (717) 245-1562, Fax: (717) 245-1971 Webpage: www.dickinson.edu/~helwegm ********************************************* --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english