Abstract
Coltheart and Cooper (1972) reexamined the data of Day and Wade (1969) concerning the retinal or gravitational reference for normalization and the tilt aftereffect. Their analysis contained a factual error concerning the procedure employed in the latter investigation, which is here corrected. Day and Wade did not, however, distinguish between normalization and aftereffect. When this distinction is made, the data from the two studies taken together indicate that deviation of an inspection line from the vertical retinal meridian is not sufficient to produce normalization but does yield a visual tilt aftereffect.
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Wade, N.J., Day, R.H. A correction to “The retinal reference of the tilt aftereffect” by Coltheart and Cooper. Perception & Psychophysics 13, 319–320 (1973). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03214146
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