ABSTRACT
Kohler's Innsbruck experiments with distorting goggles resulted in variable aftereffects and variable degrees of resistance to reconditioning and correct seeing. Recent neurophysiological discoveries based on receptive field studies of cats and monkeys subjected to “environmental surgery” are here shown to account for Kohler's remarkable research and its fruitful extension into modern psychophysiology. The use of Konorski's theory as a framework into which to fit both lines of investigation provides the synthesis of two points of view desired by Kohler. that of “situational aftereffects” and “conditioned sensations.”
