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Weintraub and Krantz (1971) rotated the distal oblique line in the Poggendorff configuration and found that distortion decreased at first and then increased as angle increased. The present study used a similar target to the one employed by Weintraub and Krantz but a different psychophysical method. The previous results were verified. It was argued that the distal contours do play a role in the Poggendorff configuration and that theories which focus exclusively on the acute angle must be reevaluated.
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This study was supported by the National Research Council of Canada (Grant AO-177).
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Pressey, A.W. The effect of rotating the distal arm in the Poggendorff configuration: A replication. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 7, 554–556 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337281
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