The study compares results from a process-oriented afterimage experiment in 3 groups of 24 psychiatric patients each. The fixation stimuli were a blank oval, a sad and a happy face—one for each group. Results show that the sad stimulus produces mote distinct adaptive patterns in a sequence of repeated measurements than do the other stimuli.
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