As has been said, judgments as to the elements of visual fields were
tested for this part of the experiment. The apparatus used was the
following: The subject was seated before a low table which was shut
from his view by curtains and boards. He looked down upon the table
through an opening into which a camera-shutter had been fitted. This
shutter was set for a two seconds' exposure and opened by means of a
bulb which the subject held in his hand. Just before each exposure,
the experimenter placed a card on the table below the camera-shutter.
The set of twenty cards so used were alike in that the background for
all was gray and the objects pasted upon the cards black letters and
numerals and simple geometrical figures of chosen shapes and colors.
No color was repeated on any one card. The cards were different in the
choice and arrangement and in the number of objects used. The number of
letters and numerals on any one card varied from two to five, the total
number of objects from eight to twelve. A white card on which were
pasted dark gray samples of each of the eleven shapes used, together
with a card of the background of those shown in the experiment on which
were pasted torn scraps of the eleven colored papers used, was always
in sight at the subject's side. A camera-shutter, experiment cards and
sample cards thus made up the apparatus.
The presence of the sample cards needs explanation. They stood for
the attempt to place the colors and shapes on the same footing as the
letters and numerals. Their presence, in the first place, and, as well,
the limitation of the number of letters and numerals used, did away
somewhat with the advantage that letters and numerals naturally have
for ease of naming. In the second place, the use of a new color for the
sample shapes and the absence of definite shape in the sample colors
helped to keep the colors and shapes more distinct. With the help of
these cards it seemed that we could properly hold we had a a visual
field of three very nearly coördinate sets of elements.
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