A re-examination of the effect of monaural stimulation upon the perception of verticality
By: A. Harvey Baker and Leonard Cirillo and Seymour Wapner
Series: Research Bulletin -- 71-55; Research bulletin (Educational Testing Service) -- RB-71-55
Publisher: Educational Testing Service
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Princeton, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 22
Subjects: Visual perception; Auditory perception; Perception in children
Description: A classic effect of sensory-tonic theory--viz., apparent verticality shifts opposite the side of monaural sound--has been questioned in three more recent studies. In attempting to evaluate these "failures to replicate," the present paper (a) elaborates upon certain findings only briefly reported earlier and summarizes additional findings which are supportive, (b) examines in detail the "failures to replicate," and (c) offers a tentative reconceptualization of the problem (viz., that the original effect occurs under the original conditions but becomes attenuated under conditions thought to reduce degree of differentiation between self and object) and briefly reports two new studies bearing on this reconceptualization.
Notes: "This bulletin is a draft for interoffice circulation ..."

"September 1971."

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 20-21).