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Stratton constructed a lens
system inside a tube that
inverted and reversed the
image from its usual
orientation, as shown in
Chapter 7. He wore this tube
over one eye (the other eye
being patched) throughout his
waking hours, first for three
days and later for eight more
days. He observed how things
appeared and how he behaved
during the experiment and
carefully recorded his
observations.
What were the results?
Stratton describes an
increasing tendency, over the
course of the experiment, for
the world to appear upright or
normal, and he infers that, in
time, it would have looked
upright permanently. However,
his findings have been in
dispute and are often misstated
in textbooks. One reason for the
confusion is that his
description of how scenes
appeared varied from day to day
as the experiment progressed.
Another is that he referred to
both egocentric and
environmental orientation
without distinguishing
between them. Suppose that at
the beginning of the
experiment an object in the
scene appeared upside down in
the environment whereas at
some later point it did not. For
example, a chair might at first
look as though it were inverted
in relation to gravity or the
ground, with the floor looking
like the ceiling, but might later
look as though it were upright
in this respect. Still, the chair
might have continued to appear
to be inverted in relation to
Stratton himself. This, indeed,
happened. Stratton reports
that: