| 释义 |
Hering|ˈhɛːrɪŋ, ˈhɛ-|
The name of Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering (1834–1918), German psychologist and physiologist, used attrib. or in the possessive to designate certain physiological effects observed, and principles enunciated, by him.
1891M. Foster Textbk. Physiol. (ed. 5) IV. iii. iii. 1232 Hering's theory attempts to reconcile..the various facts of colour vision with the supposition that we possess..six fundamental sensations. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXI. 749/2 Hering's theory proceeds on the assumption of chemical changes in the retina under the influence of light. Ibid., Hering's theory accounts satisfactorily for the formation of coloured after-images. 1911Gould Pocket Med. Dict. (ed. 6) 415 Hering's Law. The distinctness or purity of any sensation or conception depends upon the proportion existing between their intensity and the sum total of the intensities of all simultaneous sensations and conceptions. 1934H. C. Warren Dict. Psychol. 123/2 Hering after-image, the first positive after-image, or after-sensation, which occurs following a brief light-stimulus. Ibid., Hering illusion, an illusion, or distorted perception of visual form, observed when a number of lines radiating from a point are crossed by two parallel lines on opposite sides of the point and equidistant from it; the parallel lines appear to bow outward, i.e. away from the central point. Ibid., Hering theory of vision, the theory..according to which visual sensations are due to three pairs of antagonistic processes in the optic system. 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXIV. 164 The Zöllner and Hering illusions are examples of phenomena in which the overall pattern dominates the geometry and leads to the perceptual distortion of straight lines into curved lines. |