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Science 2 October 1959:
Vol. 130. no. 3379, pp. 860 - 861
DOI: 10.1126/science.130.3379.860
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Sensory Deprivation and Visual Speed: An Analysis

RICHARD HELD 1 and BURTON WHITE 1

1 Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

Speeds of moving objects were markedly underestimated by human observers after prolonged patternless visual stimulation. Even greater underestimation followed exposure to a "noisy" visual field; on the other hand, exposure to a hyperstable field caused overestimation. The effects of external visual noise simulate those of deprivation; this finding suggests that similarly disordered but spontaneous neural discharge dominates the visual nervous system in deprivation.


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