BODY AND FIELD PERCEPTUAL DIMENSION AND ALTERED SENSORY ENVIRONMENTS.
Abstract
A total of 406 subjects have been tested for perceptual mode and used in a series of experiments over the past three years. One hundred and five subjects were body-oriented: 212 fell into a middle range and 75 have been field-oriented. In the experiments now being conducted many subjects are being studied in a number of experimental sessions so that the scope of the individual samples will be considerably broadened. The investigations described in this report and previous reports have been undertaken to delineate more carefully differences in bodyoriented and field-oriented subjects. Differences in autonomic and behavioral conditioning characteristics together with differences in discrimination learning have been studied. One of the results of this series of experiments may be to lead to the development of techniques to influence the efficiency with which goal directed behavior is maintained or to influence the rapidity of learning complex perceptual and motor tasks (e. g., tasks which are carried out in response to certain signals). (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1963
- Accession Number
- AD0427213
Entities
People
- A. J. Silverman
- Sanford I. Cohen
Organizations
- Duke University