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More recent research,
however, may shed some light
on adaptation to optical
inversion and reversal and on
the ambiguities in both
StrattonΓÇÖs and KohlerΓÇÖs reports.
Charles S. Harris, at the
University of Pennsylvania and
Bell Laboratories, has
confirmed StrattonΓÇÖs report
that, when optical devices
create a discrepancy between
the visually perceived
locations of body parts and
their felt locations as given by
the proprioceptive, or position
sense, the position sense is
actually recalibrated to
conform with the visual
information. Not only does
visual capture occur, but with
longer exposure to a more
extreme discrepancy--mirror
reversal of the image of the
observerΓÇÖs moving hand--
proprioceptive perception
ultimately is drawn into line
with the reversed visual
perception, even though at first
the observer is acutely aware
that the seen direction of hand
movement is the opposite of the
felt direction. This
recalibration of touch and
sense of position persists even
when the distorted visual
information that caused it is no
longer present, as was
mentioned in Chapter 5.
Harris argues that analogous
changes in position sense
underlie StrattonΓÇÖs and
KohlerΓÇÖs adaptation and make
comprehensible their
otherwise puzzling reports. For
example, Stratton says that
when he first donned inverting
lenses, "... the parts of my body
were felt to lie where they
would have appeared had the
instrument been removed; they
were seen to be in another
position. But the older tactual
... localization was still the
real localization." As the
experiment progressed,
however, "... the limbs began
actually to feel in the place
where the new visual
perception reported them to
be."