Comparison of sensitivity for the perception of bodily rotation and the oculogyral illusion

Two samples of 10 random polygons were scaled tactually and visually using multidimensional scaling techniques. Unidimensional solutions were very similar for both modalities and were linearly dependent upon the number of independent sides of the forms. Solutions of higher dimensionality did not produce clearly interpretable unique orderings of the forms beyond the first dimension with these samples. Within the limits imposed by these samples of forms. the data strongly support equivalence for visual and tactual form perception.     

Spatial effectiveness of the mask: Lateral inhibition in visual backward masking

Introducing a figure into a masking flash results in visual backward masking under conditions where a homogeneous masking flash does not suppress target detection. It is possible to analyze the spatial effects of such a masking figure in terms of lateral inhibition. It is hypothesized that incorporating a figure into the masking flash changes the inhibitory pattern the mask produces in the visual system. The interaction between the firing pattern produced by the mask and the residual inhibition from the preceding target presentation results in a phenomenal representation different from that produced by either the target or the mask alone.     

GROWING UP AND GROWING OLDER: FEMINISM AS A CONTEXT FOR WOMEN'S LIVES

Social science research shows that contemporary women endorse feminist goals at rates similar to women in the 1970s. However, generations may differ in some aspects of their relationship to feminism. This study of 333 university alumnae examined expressions of feminism across three generations. We provide the first empirical evidence to support Stewart and Healy's (1989) prediction about the impact of social events experienced in childhood; only the youngest cohort recalled holding feminist beliefs as children. Additionally, each cohort identified feminist influences from the period coinciding with their own identity-forming adolescence as most important, although feminism was related to other beliefs in a similar way for each cohort. The Women's Movement appears to be internalized differently depending on developmental life stage.