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  2. George M. Stratton - Wikipedia

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    George Malcolm Stratton (September 26, 1865 – October 8, 1957) was an American psychologist who pioneered the study of perception in vision by wearing special glasses which inverted images up and down and left and right.

  3. Rosy retrospection - Wikipedia

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    The English idiom "rose-colored glasses" or "rose-tinted glasses" refers to perceiving something more positively than it is in reality. The Romans occasionally referred to this phenomenon with the Latin phrase "memoria praeteritorum bonorum", which translates into English roughly as "memory of good past", or more idiomatically as "good old days".

  4. Upside down goggles - Wikipedia

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    How a human looks blinking in upside down goggles. Under normal circumstances, an inverted image is formed on the retina of the eye. With the help of upside down goggles, the image on the retina of the observer's eyes is turned back (straightened) and thus the space around the observer looks upside down.

  5. People who wear glasses are smarter, study claims - AOL

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    Check out these smart famous glasses wearers: Researchers at the University Medical Center in Germany linked spending more time in school and People who wear glasses are smarter, study claims Skip ...

  6. Wearing Glasses Increases Chances of Interview Success - AOL

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    Additionally, the person wearing the glasses may also get caught up in this wave of enthusiasm for doing business, similar to the way in which you might feel a sudden sense of confidence after ...

  7. Neural adaptation - Wikipedia

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    Prismatic reversing glasses (upside down goggles with two prisms) Helmholtz theorized that perceptual adaptation might result from a process he referred to as unconscious inference, where the mind unconsciously adopts certain rules in order to make sense of what is perceived of the world. An example of this phenomenon is when a ball appears to ...

  8. Why gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik wears glasses: What to know ...

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    P rism lenses in glasses can help manage the misalignment of the eyes by bending the light in a way that the brain sees it coming in straight from both eyes. Botox injections to the muscles that ...

  9. Prism adaptation - Wikipedia

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    In most cases the visual field is shifted laterally either in the rightward or leftward direction. While wearing the goggles, the individual engages in a perceptual motor task such as pointing to a visual target directly in front of them. A prism adaptation session includes three components: the pre-test, prism exposure, and the post-test.