Re: Upside Down

[P3D Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:49 AM 10/2/96, P3D Jeremy Hinton wrote:
>
>Some (Marvin Jones for one) are understandably sceptical about
>the 'upside-down prism' experiments. Fair enough. If it was an
>urban legend then it had me going.... but it wouldn't have been
>the first time. So I checked:
>
>These experiments were done by Richard Held at MIT.
>Ref (Held R., (1965)'Plasticity in sensory-motor systems' Sci. Amer.
>_211_84-94, reproduced in a sci.am. book about 1972)
>

I'd forgotten that--it turns out that the grad student who worked on that
study, Shin Shimojo (now a prof. at Tokyo University, I think) will be
joining the faculty here at Caltech in March; we could bug him then.  (He
also did an interview with Bela Julesz for one of the Japanese stereogram
books, I forget which one).

-Jim C.

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