Stereoscopic Vision and Its Relation to Intensity and Quality of Light Sensation

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Excerpt from Stereoscopic Vision and Its Relation to Intensity and Quality of Light Sensation: Thesis Presented to the University of Toronto for the Degree of Doctor of PhilosophyWithout entering into a discussion of this alleged space organ it will suffice to point out some of the assumptions which Storch finds it necessary to make in the application of his theory to experience. In the first place, he distinguishes between what he calls the visual form and the real form of perceived objects. Neither in monocular nor in binocular Vision is the spacial arrangement and form of the things which we really perceive simply the subjective aspect which is given by the stimulus. Entirely without our will the visual form is suppressed by the real form of the object. T he spacial element of visual perception has two components, one, inde pendent of all experience, is caused by the stimulus. This is the visual form, which comes into our consciousness as certain complexes of a two or three-dimensional nature. This visual form or space component furnished by the senses Storch calls the immediate element of visual perception. The other com ponent, which partially or completely suppresses the former, is the real form of the thing, which Storch calls the mediate spacial element, or associative component of visual percep tion. This distinction of real form from visual form involves a strange confusion of thought, and is wholly inconsistent with Storch's theory. If the form given in the stimulus is not seen, but is suppressed or altered by something else called the real form, why call the former Visual P Again, on Storch's theory, since complexes of sensation have not spacial quality without the excitation of a special space-organ, it must be through the excitation of that organ that we get the.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.