A New Eidetic Phenomenon

Abstract

However, the eidetic field is fertile with theoretical implications and experimental possibilities which' should not be overlooked. The basic facts that the eidetic image is externalized or seen with apparently perceptual objectivity, and that under certain conditions it obeys or is psychologically modified by certain laws of optics, by the physiological conditions of the retina, and by the spatial position and lability of the screen open up avenues of approach for the investigation of dynamic visual processes as well as for methods of determining the precise nature of the eidetic image itself. The latter problem beckons our immediate interest, in view of the important bearing it must have upon fundamental psychological theory. What, then, is the mechanism of the eidetic image?