Effect of Humming on Watching Television

Effect of Humming on Watching Television

RUSHTON has shown that humming causes the eyes to vibrate and this, in turn, produces a stroboscopic effect when a sectored disk is viewed in steady light 1 . He demonstrated this phenomenon by using a black-and-white sectored disk rotated on a phonographic turntable. When a subject hummed at the co...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature (London) 1972-10, Vol.239 (5372), p.407-407
Hauptverfasser: WILLIAMS, PHILIP C, WILLIAMS, THEODORE P
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Acoustic Stimulation
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
letter
Models, Biological
multidisciplinary
Ocular Physiological Phenomena
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Sound
Television
Vibration
Vision, Ocular - physiology
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Zusammenfassung:RUSHTON has shown that humming causes the eyes to vibrate and this, in turn, produces a stroboscopic effect when a sectored disk is viewed in steady light 1 . He demonstrated this phenomenon by using a black-and-white sectored disk rotated on a phonographic turntable. When a subject hummed at the correct frequency (determined by the speed of the turntable and the number of sectors on the disk), he saw the sectors standing motionless. Slightly lower and higher pitched hums produced apparent motions of the sectors in the clockwise and counterclockwise directions, respectively.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/239407a0