Ganzfeld experiment
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The term ganzfeld was coined in 1930 by psychologist Wolfgang Metzger. The word is derived from the German ganz, meaning "whole" or "entire", and the German Feld, meaning "field" or "area". Thus, the term comes to describe an unstructured visual field (the "entire field") (Metzger). It has been noted, however, the the noun Ganzfeld does not make much sense in its native German, unless qualified by some specification which describes the given visual field, i.e. farbiges Ganzfeld meaning "visual field entirely filled with color" (Wackermann et al. 1365).
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- McGuinness, Diane, and Ian Lewis. "Sex Differences in Visual Persistence: Experiments on the Ganzfeld and Afterimages." Perception 5.3 (1976): 295-301. Print.
- Metzger, Wolfgang. "Optische Untersuchungen Am Ganzfeld. II: Zur Phänomenologie Des Homogenen Ganzfelds." Psychologische Forschung 13.1 (1930): 6-29. Print.
- Palmer, John. "ESP in the Ganzfeld: Analysis of a Debate." Journal of Consciousness Studies 10.6-7 (2003): 51-68. Print.
- Wackermann, Jiří, Peter Pütz, and Carsten Allefeld. "Ganzfeld-induced Hallucinatory Experience, Its Phenomenology and Cerebral Electrophysiology." Cortex 44.10 (2008): 1364-378. Print.