Some problems of sensory integration / by Henry J. Watt.

  • Watt, Henry J. (Henry Jackson), 1879-1925.
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1910
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    SOME PROBLEMS OF SENSORY INTEGRATION1. By HENRY J. WATT. (Psychological Laboratory, University of Glasgow.) A. Demonstrations of uniocular stereoscopy by means of (1) interruptedly disparate contours in alternation, (2) progressively disparate contours in succession. B. The independence and probable primacy of uniocular or progressive stereoscopy.—Binocular or static stereoscopy an adapta- tion to the needs of static vision. C. Depth-effect is a secondary attribute of visual sensation, derived from the integration of differences in the order aspects of its uniocular components. D. Theory of stereoscopic vision from interrupted stimulation.— Presumption that the mechanisms of uniocular and binocular stereo- scopy are similar. E. Further theory of A.—The psychical determinateness of the object of regard determines the ambiguous uniocular stimulation.— Experiments with the stroboscope and various ambiguous stimulations. F. Size as the special determinant in E.—General treatment of the result.—Ambiguous stimuli and their determinants.—Inadequate stimuli have a meaning only in relation to integrative processes.— Central and peripheral determinants.—Presumption that the latter are, for sensory integrations at least, consensuous with the ambiguous stimuli.—Parallelism of physiological and psychological investigation. The presence of a multiplicity of sense-organs of the same and of different kinds presents a number of interesting problems to the psychologist and to the physiologist. An intimacy of connexion between nerve-paths or impulses emana- ting from different sense-organs is, of course, recognized in many forms. 1 The following paper was read in a somewhat modified form before the British Psychological Society in London, on March 12th, 1910. 21—2