Some earlier methodological and theoretical criticisms of studies of reversible perspective reported by Price have recently been examined by him. Several of these criticisms are expanded here, and some problems inherent in the use of grouped data relative to a satiation theory of perceptual fluctuation such as his are discussed.
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