The temporal fields of momentary figures

Abstract

The Temporal Fields (TFs) of momentary figures were investigated both by the two-Poinfs mefhod (first an IS, then two TS) and by the one-point method (first an IS, then the same IS and a TS) by means of simultaneous comparison, continual observation, and gradually decreasing step mefhod. The strength of TF was defined by r = (t₀-t) ^-1 = (t₀·rE) = 1, where rE is the strength of spatial effect on time perception. It was found from Tables 1, and 2 and Fig. 1 that (1) the nearer TS was presented to IS, the stronger was r of TF, and that (2) the order of rE-strength was a virtical line, a horizontal line-and a circle in the horizontal direction. Table 3 and Fig. 2 show that rE outside an angle was stronger than that inside. Tables 3, and 4 and Fig. 2, and 3 indicate that the figural shape of an IS was more important than its center of gravity. Tables 5, 6 and Fig. 4, 5 tell that the spatial effect (rE) was stronger than the peripheral effect, and the so-called KaPPa-effect must be none other than the latter. Tables 7 to 11 and Fig. 6, 7 are concerned with the forms of TFs of a straight line, an angle, and contours of a circle, a square, and an equilateral triangle. However the same results were not observed in the region of auditory sensation. The phenomenon may be formulated as follows : τ = (L₂, t, 1/_s²), where t is a time interval, s is a special interval, and L₂ is the coefficient of electro-magnetic self-induction, which may be controlled experimentally by the set of the observer, which sometimes may disturb E. In conclusion, the results together with the author's accumulated hypothetico-deductive investigations of the für sich considerations on this problem since the discovery of spatial effect on time perception in 1935, it was hypo-thesized that the electro-maganetic, neuro induction would cause the phenomenon to occur.