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Show ABLE TO FOOL THE SENSES Psychological Investigators Get Some Curious Results, in Yale Experiments. Curiously interesting results havo been obtniced by experiments on hallucinations hallu-cinations of tho senses at tho Ynlo psychololgcxl laboratory. A person placed In n (julet room was sk.l to note tho Intensity of n tofte which would bo Hounded every time n telegraph tele-graph recehcr clicked. At first tho tone was actually producod, but afterward, after-ward, unknown to tho porson experimented experi-mented on, the tone was omitted, while tho clicking was regularly continued Still the subject of tho experiment bo-lloved bo-lloved that ho heard the tono us before with every click or tho Instrument, Another experiment consisted In dropping n light pith ball on the hand of a porson so placed that ho could not see wlin t was dono. Horn fall rf tho ball was timed to rorresiKind wl'h the sound regularly emitted by a m-iro-nome. After a while the ball was no longer dropped, but the suhlect "f the experiment continued to feel, or i,na-glno i,na-glno thnt ho felt, the touch of th I all at every sound from tho metronome. In n third experiment a blue bead was placed In tho center of white ring anil a porson wns requottp-i t i approach ap-proach tho ring nnd note, by rn is of a tape measure at his side, tho dlst-inco at which tho bead first became vlslblo to him. Later tho bead was secretly removed, but still on arriving at the previously determined distance the person believed that h saw the held. |