Cinematic Perception: An Encounter Between Human Metabolic Rhythm and the Moving Image - Text 2
Rhythm and Biology
In 1912, Max Wertheimer introduced a new concept in his text “Experimental Studies on the Seeing of Motion,” in which he observed another perceptual phenomenon.[8] The German psychologist noted that when two images of the same shape are made to appear and disappear in succession at a constant interval, the observer perceives the movement of that shape through space. He termed this the phi phenomenon.
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[8] Max Wertheimer, “Experimental Studies on the Seeing Motion,” in Classics in Psychology, ed. Thorne Shipley (New York: Philosophical Library, 1961 [1912]), 1076-1077.
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