She also sewed kittens' eyes shut, some one eye, some both, and let them
live in baskets (or some damn thing) so they would have no knowledge of the
ground or of how to see, and then she let them go (unsewed the eyelid/s) and
watched what happened. Yep folks, the great perception research that made
our bomber pilots what there are today (funds from the Dept of Defense, to
better understand pilot depth perception and reaction time). When I was
growing up this all seemed normal (these people were my dad's esteemed and
very famous colleagues) but more recently it has come to seem extremely
abberant and peculiar. I am looooosing touch with the "realities" of
academia (yay).
HLH

At 02:20 PM 1/7/00 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 01/06/2000 4:28:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
>> She let babes of various ages crawl out across a surface that at a certain
>>  point became see-through. If the babe looked down and continued forward,
>she
>>  checked the box Does Not Have Depth Perception. If the babe stopped, looked
>>  down, became upset or otherwise involved in the view below, she checked the
>>  box Does Have Depth Perception.
>
>I remember seeing this experiment on a PBS Nova show once.
>