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Acta Physiologica 2006; Volume 186, Supplement 650
Joint Meeting of The German Society of Physiology and The Federation of European Physiological Societies 2006
3/26/2006-3/29/2006
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
STIMULUS INTENSITY DEPENDENCE OF COLOUR PERCEPTION BY HEIGHTENED SENSORY PERCEPTION (HSP®) TRAINED CHILDREN
Abstract number: PW07P-8
Ahn1 S, Kim1 SW, Jang1 DP, Ku1 JH, Sumners1 DP, Lee1 US, Cho1 ZH, Lee1 SH
13F, LG Twintel Bldg, 157-8, Samsung-Dong, Kangnam-Gu, Seoul 135-090 South Korea
In this presentation we report that children trained in heightened sensory perception (HSP®) appear to correctly report the colour of cards using only fractional amounts of visual information. Here we wanted to test that hypothesis further not by altering the background light intensity (external luminance), but instead by using filters to reduce the intensity of the card stimulus only with varying degree. As in our previous experiment 6 cards were placed in front of the subjects in a random order, but the cards were placed behind one of three filters (80%, 30% or 5% reduction in light intensity). A total of nine cards were presented for each filter in each session and 2 subjects repeated the protocol on 4 separate occasions. The subjects wore an identical blindfold throughout this and previous experiments (< 0.1 % light penetration). The data was averaged across trials for each subject and then across subjects. The results support the findings from our previous experiments (), and further demonstrate that when the amount of visual information available is reduced by the filters the performance becomes less consistent and then performance declines significantly. It is interesting to note that all performances were still above the probability of guessing, which supports our previous hypothesis that children trained in heightened sensory perception (HSP®) can utilise fractional amounts of visual information to correctly report the colour of
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Acta Physiologica 2006; Volume 186, Supplement 650 :PW07P-8