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Science 26 April 1963:
Vol. 140. no. 3565, pp. 403 - 404
DOI: 10.1126/science.140.3565.403
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Disappearance of Luminous Designs

John Paul McKinney 1

1 Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

When a subject fixates on a luminous design under conditions of low illumination, he experiences a fragmenting disappearance of the figure. This fragmentation occurs in meaningful units and is comparable to the disappearance of images stabilized on the retina. The luminous paint technique offers a new and simple approach to the study of visual perception.


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