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New Phenomena in Apparent Duration, Distance and Speed

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OUR earlier experiments on interdependence in judgments of time, space and movement led to the establishment of a phenomenon, now known as the ‘kappa-effect’, in visual and auditory experience1. These experiments prompted us to inquire whether analogous phenomena characterize judgments in other contexts when the subject himself undergoes movement, for example, as a passenger in a vehicle on the road.

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COHEN, J., COOPER, P. New Phenomena in Apparent Duration, Distance and Speed. Nature 196, 1233–1234 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1961233a0

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