Not exact matches
The researchers found that these volunteers viewed the
horizon as if it were several degrees lower, indicating that the brain tries to keep the
horizon as a constant
reference point.
In these paintings, images are often cropped and lack a specific
point of spatial
reference, such
as a
horizon line, thus inviting a contemplative experience and generating the feeling of immersion in Katz's open - ended pictorial space.
Wortz, a psychologist, was investigating states of sensory deprivation, especially in relation to the disorientation and hallucinatory effects on humans that result from immersion in uniform fields of light and colour, once
reference points such
as objects and
horizons have been removed.