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Harris argues further that
although a sensory harmony
between the visual scene and
Stratton's feet and lower
extremities was achieved, it did
so only because the feet were
visible. Such harmony was
achieved because the felt
position of his feet came to
match the seen position, not
because of any change in visual
perception. As Stratton put it, "I
could at length feel my feet
strike against the seen floor,
although the floor was seen on
the opposite side of the field of
vision from that to which at
the beginning of the
experiment I had referred these
tactual sensations."
By contrast, Stratton asserts
that "shoulders and head,
which under the
circumstances could never be
directly seen, kept the old
localization they had had in
normal vision." If legs and
torso were felt to match the
perceived orientation of the
scene while head and
shoulders did not, would not
that imply a misperception of
the orientation of the head on
the body? Thus Harris is here
offering an explanation of
StrattonΓÇÖs frequent experience
that he was viewing an upright
scene from an inverted position
of his head and shoulders.
Similarly, Harris argues that, if
KohlerΓÇÖs subjects adapted to
reversal by coming to feel that
their hands were actually
where the reversed visual
information reported them to
be, the subjects could correctly
judge that the curves of a 3 were
closer to their right hand than
to their left, while nonetheless
continuing to see the 3 as
backward.