Stratton
modernExperimental Psychology1865 – 1957
George Malcolm Stratton was an American psychologist who pioneered experimental research on visual perception, most notably his inverting-lens experiments in the 1890s which demonstrated the remarkable adaptability of the perceptual system and shaped debates about the relationship between vision and proprioception.
Notable Achievements
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Conducted the first systematic inverting-lens experiments (1896-1897), wearing lenses that flipped the visual field upside down
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Demonstrated that perceptual adaptation to inverted vision is primarily proprioceptive rather than purely visual
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Established foundational evidence for the plasticity of spatial perception
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Published influential works on emotion, attention, and the psychology of conflict
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Served as professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley for over four decades