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Do our perceptions of size
depend on such stimulus
relations? In an attempt to
answer this question, Sheldon
Ebenholtz and I carried out the
following two-part experiment.
In one part, an observer sat
midway between two luminous
vertical lines in an otherwise
dark room. One line, the
standard, was 3 inches high,
and the other was a line whose
length could be varied by the
subject. The observer was asked
to look back and forth and to
indicate when the length of
the variable line matched the
standard. In this, the control
part of the experiment, subjects
were able to match the standard
lineΓÇÖs length almost exactly,
selecting on average a line 3.1
inches long.
In the second part of the
experiment, the observer was
again asked to match the lines,
but this time they were
surrounded by luminous
rectanglesΓÇöΓÇôactual frames of
reference. The standard line
was enclosed in a rectangle 4
inches high, making it three-
fourths the height of the
rectangle, and the variable line
was enclosed in a rectangle
three times larger, or 12 inches
high.