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Experimental Studies of a Perceptual Anomaly. I. Initial Experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

M. B. Shapiro
M. B. Shapiro*
Affiliation:
Psychological Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London
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It was noticed that, during the performance of the Kohs Blocks Test, a few patients would in some cases make the model correctly, but misoriented. Illustration i gives an example of such a phenomenon. The patient had to reproduce the design shown with four Kohs Blocks. His reproduction is shown. The pattern has been correctly reproduced, but has been misoriented by 45°. The pattern was never in fact misoriented to a greater extent than this.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 97 , Issue 406 , January 1951 , pp. 90 - 110
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1951 

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