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Experiments may bring out
differences that are not really
present in perception. One such
reason might be the conflict, to
which I just alluded, between
the two modes of perception. If
a conflict does indeed exist, it
may become a matter of
judgment in deciding what the
experimenter really wants and
thus how to resolve it.
Naturally, then, different
people may come to different
conclusions. Artists and some
others may be more sensitive to
or more aware of the proximal
mode of perception. We would
expect this to influence their
matches in the direction away
from constancy more so than it
does for other individuals. But
even if this is true it would not
mean what the quantitative
results seem to implyΓÇöΓÇônamely,
that they are poorer in
achieving constancy.
The same reasoning could
also explain some puzzling
results of experiments on the
development of size perception
in children. Some studies seem
to show that the extent of
perceptual constancy increases
with age. These findings would
make perfect sense if the
testing of young infants
revealed no sign of constancy,
but, as we have seen, such
studies suggest that perceptual
constancy is present in the
early months of life.