Abstract
Three experiments showed posttest-minus-pretest shifts in subjective straight-ahead eye position when subjects read for 3, 6, or 9 min with their heads tilted back 20° from upright. These shifts were significant relative to control conditions in which subjects read with their heads upright. All subjects read with the same straight-ahead eye-in-head position. Variability-reducing procedures were developed to provide better measures over Experiments 1, 2. and 3. Explanations in terms of deliberate compensation, head-position asymmetries, eye-position asymmetries, and progressive error were ruled out. It was hypothesized that the shifts were caused by negative aftereffects of compensation for the doll reflex. The doll reflex rotates the eyes down without central registration. causing an upward illusory shift of visual direction similar to what is caused by wedge prisms. Perceptual-motor adaptation to this shift, i.e., doll adaptation, causes an illusory shift in the opposite direction when the head is returned to upright.
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