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Definition of Afterimages
1. afterimage [n] - See also: afterimage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Afterimages
Literary usage of Afterimages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"... the superposition of dark afterimages on the sensations, (4) the projection
of the afterimages on a dark ground, or (5) the projection of afterimages, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"In subjects in which I have myself worked—afterimages, the discrimination of
intensity, conflict of the fields of vision and others—new methods have given ..."
3. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1907)
"The afterimages of the paracentral region were more intense than those in the
... Again, color discrimination is sometimes finer in the afterimages than in ..."
4. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Charles Hubbard Judd (1902)
"These are the negative and complementary afterimages. If light stimuli of short
duration act upon the eye in darkness, this transition from positive to ..."
5. A Text-book of physiology for medical students and physicians by William Henry Howell (1913)
"afterimages are of two kinds: positive and negative. ... In negative afterimages
the colors are all reversed—that is, they take on the complementary ..."
6. Lectures: On Illuminating Engineering Delivered at the Johns Hopkins by Johns Hopkins University, Illuminating Engineering Society (1911)
"Practically all intense visual sensations are followed by afterimages, which,
fortunately, seldom force themselves upon our attention. ..."
7. The New Psychology by Edward Wheeler Scripture (1897)
"We were not observing fields but flowers, not the sky but the meteors, not the
whole visual space but the afterimages ; to observe the larger units we ..."
8. Psychology by Burtis Burr Breese (1917)
"These after-sensations are commonly called "afterimages," which term has been
applied mostly to the visual sensations. Under some conditions the ..."
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