Lifwynn Foundation Eye-Movement Camera Records
name: label: Creator
content: Lifwynn Foundation
label: Names
content: Burrow, L. Trigant
label: Names
content: Buswell, Guy
label: Names
content: Luce, L. E.
label: Names
content: Robinson, Charles (electrical engineer)
label: Inventor
content: Roger, Henry
label: Names
content: Thompson, H. A.
place: label: Place
content: Sand Hook (Conn.)
title: label: Topic
content: Look (magazine)
topic: label: Topic
content: advertising -- 1930-1960
label: Topic
content: Neuroses -- 1930-1960
label: Topic
content: Eye -- Movements -- Photographic measurements -- 1930-1960
label: Topic
content: Cameras -- 1930-1960
label: Topic
content: Psychologists -- 1930-1960
label: Topic
content: Psychology -- 1930-1960
label: Topic
content: Photography, Ophthalmic -- 1930-1960
label: Topic
content: Photography, Medical -- 1930-1960
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Immediate source of acquisition unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Lifwynn Foundation
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content: Lifwynn Foundation Eye-Movement Camera Records
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: These records of the Lifwynn Foundation document the development of the Lifwynn Eye-Movement Camera. The camera was devised and built by Dr. Henry Roger in his laboratory at Sand Hook, Connecticut. Charles Robinson assisted in the development and construction of the electrical features.

The registration and analysis of eye movements was undertaken as part of the study of the physiological alterations related to neurotic disorders. The investigation by L. Trigant Burrow, Scientific Director of the Lifwynn Foundation, and his associates, was undertaken especially in regard to disturbances in attention. Dr. Burrows' investigations were directed towards differentiating between a type of attention or adaption that is fundamentally healthy and direct and another type that is neurotic and under the influence of disturbing emotions.

Two earlier cameras - the two-film camera of Dr. Guy T. Buswell at Chicago University and the ophthalmograph of L.E. Luce and H.A. Thompson proved inadequate for this research project. Therefore, it was necessary to construct a camera especially designed to photograph eye movements exactly and continuously. The Lifwynn Foundation Eye-Movement Camera was constructed and made it possible to record both the horizontal and vertical components of the eye movements on one rolling film.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938 - 1954
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Collection transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Medical Sciences (now the Division of medicine and Science) on April 29,1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0020
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged alphabetically.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Robert S. Harding, archivist, 1983.
label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Robert Harding, 1983
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are file memoranda on meetings and correspondence, sent and received, 1938-1954, between the Lifwynn Foundation for Laboratory Research in Analytic and Social Psychiatry Incorporated, and in particular, Hans Syz, M.D., Secretary, and various doctors, psychologists, other professionals in the subject field, and various U.S. Military Departments, regarding either the eye movement camera or research projects using it; experiments and results with eye movement cameras; reprints of the American Journal of Psychology; and reprints in TIDE's series of monthly reports on tests made by Look's research staff with Look's eye cameras (eye camera tests of magazine advertising): "Left Side Preference Results"; "Flash Preference Tests and Results"; and "Headline Placement".