ABSTRACT
Prism adaptation is a surprisingly enduring subject of research. Beginning with the work of Helmholtz (1909/1962) in Germany and Stratton (1896, 1897a, 1897b) in the United States, prism adaptation was a minor but persistent research area until the systematic work of Kohler (1951/1964) at Innsbruck, Austria and Held (1961, 1968) in the United States that produced an intense flurry of research in the 1960s and 1970s (for reviews, see Rock, 1966; Welch, 1978, 1986). This momentum has abated somewhat, but still the prism adaptation paradigm is frequently used to investigate problems of perceptual and perceptual–motor plasticity. 1
