Citation

Guilford JP. J. Exp. Psychol. 1929; 12(4): 259-266.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1929, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/h0072171

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In order to determine the influence of eye movements an experimental disk containing 16 spokes was rotated under D.C. illumination to avoid stroboscopic effects and the movements of the eye photographed by techniques previously described by the author. The association of the stationary flashes with eye movements was not perfect. The author maintains that two types of interpretation are possible for these phenomena. According to one, there is "a kind of freezing or negation of duration," and according to the other we have "an exaggeration or prolongation of time." There is a physiological basis for either interpretation. If the time experience is not restricted to the focal experience, or even if it is rather a constant attribute of the marginal consciousness, then the eye movements have produced a local rather than a general distortion of time. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)