Acquired foveal fixation motives can transfer to the peripheral retina, forming a generalized retinal habit¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q2
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q2 i? After practice, some figures (the cube, pyramid and book) reversed most readily when a point outside the figures was fixated, showing transference of fixation motives from fovea to peripheral retina. → J. E. Wallace Wallin 1905

Evidence¶

J. E. Wallace Wallin 1905¶

J. E. Wallace Wallin. (1905). The Doctrine of Formal Discipline: Two Neglected Instances of Transfer of Training. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://archive.org

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A secondary observation from experiments in which figures were reversed in the direct and indirect visual fields; the author calls it less significant but a pertinent suggestion, an acquired foveal disposition spreading to adjacent retinal elements.

"But after practice with certain figures it sometimes happened that the figures (the cube, pyramid and book) reversed most readily when a point outside the figures was fixated. This furnishes an instance of the transference of fixation motives attaching to the fovea to the peripheral retina."

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