INVESTIGATIONS OF FLICKER AND FUSION: IV. THE EFFECT OF AUDITORY FLICKER ON THE PRONOUNCEDNESS OF VISUAL FLICKER
INVESTIGATIONS OF FLICKER AND FUSION: IV. THE EFFECT OF AUDITORY FLICKER ON THE PRONOUNCEDNESS OF VISUAL FLICKER
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DOI:
10.1080/00221309.1945.10544501
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发表时间:
1945-07-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Knox, George W.
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作者:
Knox, George W.
Long before actual experimenting was done in regard to inter-sensory influence and relationships, the phenomenon had been suggested by various daily experiences. In 1669 Bartholmus, an anatomist, stated that people who were partially deaf, could hear better in the light than in the dark. Weber observed that a thaler which is laid on the skin, is experienced as heavier when it is cold than when it is warm. Lazareff, a Moscow biophysicist, reported on the following observation. The subject strikes a piano key, keeping it depressed so that the auditory stimulus remains fairly constant. He then switches a light bulb on and off, and, according to Lazareff, the auditory intensity (experiential) rises and falls with the changing intensity of the light.James (5) in his Principles, speaks of Urbantschitsch as follows: ALL our sense organs influence each other's sensations. The hue of patches of color so distant as not to be recognized was immediately perceived by Urbantschitsch's patients when a tuning fork was sounded close to the ear;... the acuity of vision was increased, so that letters too far off to be read could be read when the tuning fork was heard.... Sounds on the limit of audibility became audible when lights of various colors were exhibited to the eye. Smell, taste, touch, the sense of temperature, etc., were all found to fluctuate when lights were seen and sounds were heard.