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... beats 182. Supposed Positions with Visual Attention 227 227 · 183. Supposed Positions with Auditory Attention 184. Johann Friederich Herbart 228 • 249 186 . 185. Gustav Theodor Fechner Hermann von Helmholtz 187. Wilhelm Wundt . 251 252 ...
... beats 182. Supposed Positions with Visual Attention 227 227 · 183. Supposed Positions with Auditory Attention 184. Johann Friederich Herbart 228 • 249 186 . 185. Gustav Theodor Fechner Hermann von Helmholtz 187. Wilhelm Wundt . 251 252 ...
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... beating of a drum is intended to be in a more or less complicated rhythm . In a research on walking the person experimented on puts on a pair of shoes with hollow rub- ber soles ( Fig . 31 ) . Each sole communicates by a long tube with ...
... beating of a drum is intended to be in a more or less complicated rhythm . In a research on walking the person experimented on puts on a pair of shoes with hollow rub- ber soles ( Fig . 31 ) . Each sole communicates by a long tube with ...
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... sentially a stop - watch which makes a fine pointer beat either in seconds or in fifths of a second . This pointer writes on the FIG . 34. - The Electric Shoe . smoked drum . At the same time it breaks an. Rhythmic Action 53.
... sentially a stop - watch which makes a fine pointer beat either in seconds or in fifths of a second . This pointer writes on the FIG . 34. - The Electric Shoe . smoked drum . At the same time it breaks an. Rhythmic Action 53.
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... beat is very irregular . Still another characteristic record is shown in Fig . 37. The step is very regular but slightly ahead of the click . The record may even show on an average neither retardation nor accelera- tion , but may yet be ...
... beat is very irregular . Still another characteristic record is shown in Fig . 37. The step is very regular but slightly ahead of the click . The record may even show on an average neither retardation nor accelera- tion , but may yet be ...
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... beat- ing time , etc. There is no index of inaccuracy because the person sets his own time ; the index of ... beats measured to hundredths of a second with the following results : 56 Thinking , Feeling , Doing.
... beat- ing time , etc. There is no index of inaccuracy because the person sets his own time ; the index of ... beats measured to hundredths of a second with the following results : 56 Thinking , Feeling , Doing.
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