Von Frey's optical bench

(Optische Bank nach von Frey)
Description: This stand allows various instruments to be mounted precisely along the same optical axis. The instruments allow control of visual density (and thus stimulus intensity), size of stimuli, color cancellation, and the use of pointers. (Expanded caption Copyright 1998, Edward J. Haupt)
(Source: None given.)
Source of illustration: Zimmermann, E. (1903). XVIII. Preis- Liste über psychologische und physiologische Apparate (p. 18). Leipzig: Eduard Zimmermann.

DESCRIPTORS:
Type: research
Stimulus: light sources
System: vision
Output: judgment of equality or difference

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