Recent work on certain movement aftereffects has shown that the duration of such effects is greater in the lower half of the visual field than it is in the upper half. This finding is said to be opposed to the theory of figural aftereffects developed by Koehler and Wallach. Closer examination of the situation shows that the new facts agree with the theory.
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