CHAPTER VIII

THE SENSE OF SIGHT: BRIGHTNESS VISION (_Continued_)

The delicacy of brightness discrimination--Methods of testing the dancer's

ability to detect slight differences in brightness--Results of tests with

gray papers--Relation of intensity of visual stimuli to the threshold of

discrimination--Weber's law apparatus and method of experimentation--

Results of Weber's law tests--Practice effects, the training of vision--

Description of the behavior of the dancer in the discrimination box

experiments--Modes of choice: by affirmation; by negation; by comparison--

Evidence of indiscriminable visual conditions.

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