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While admittedly this
statement is open to different
interpretations, I take it to
mean that the scene had by
this time righted itselfΓÇöΓÇôthat
is, appeared as an upright
world. But the orientation of its
image on the retina, upright
rather than inverted as it
ordinarily is, continued to
yield an impression of
egocentric inversion. It simply
did not look upright in relation
to Stratton himself. The
solution to these two facts had
to be that he himself somehow
must be viewing an upright
world from an inverted
position. I am here suggesting a
different explanation of
StrattonΓÇÖs peculiar experiences
from the one suggested by
Harris.
The critical test is what
happened when the tube was
removed. Had the scene viewed
through the tube come to look
upright, we should expect that
the scene viewed without the
tube should look inverted
(being an example of a negative
aftereffect), but it did not. Yet
other negative aftereffects did
occur, including StrattonΓÇÖs
impression that the scene
moved rapidly whenever he
moved his head. Thus,
adaptation to the lens-induced
"swinging of the scene"
occurred during the
experiment, as noted in
Chapter 7, but not egocentric
adaptation.