Can someone help me with a list of research done using the Ames Room?

McGruff

The Ames Room You may have visited an amusement park fun house that utilized the research findings of perception psychologists: Balls appear to roll uphill and people appear to shrink before your eyes. The Ames room is a specially constructed room that, due to size and shape constancy, looks normal. Actually, the walls and windows are trapezoidal and one corner is much farther away from the observer than the other. When two people stand in the corners, one person looks small while the other appears a giant, and when a ball is rolled straight ahead, it appears to go uphill. Research indicates that the Ames room illusion can be explained by the lack of cues normally used in three-dimensional shape constancy. http://www.dushkin.com/connectext/psy/ch04/ames.mhtml The distorted room seen above (in the link below) is named after the American ophthalmologist Adelbert Ames, Jr., who first constructed such a room in 1946. He based his design on a concept originally conceived by Hermann Helmholtz in the late 19th century. There are two illusions associated with the Ames Room. First the room appears cubic when viewed monocularly from a special viewing point (the true shape of the room is trapezoidal). Secondly, within an Ames Room people or objects can appear to grow or shrink when moving from one corner to the other. http://psylux.psych.tu-dresden.de/i1/kaw/diverses%20Material/www.illusionworks.com/html/ames_room.html Apr 12 06, 2:12 AM

McGruff

Adelbert Ames, Jr. (1880-1955) was an American scientist who made contributions to physics, physiology, ophthalmology, psychology, and philosophy. He pioneered the study of physiological optics at Dartmouth College, serving as a research professor, then as director of research in the Dartmouth Eye Institute. He conducted important research into aspects of binocular vision, including cyclophoria and aniseikonia. Ames is perhaps best known for constructing some illusions of visual perception: the Ames room, the Ames window, and the Ames chair. He was a leading light in the Transactionalist School of psychology, also making contributions in social psychology. Ames II is perhaps best known for his eponymous room, window, and chair. These were called "equivalent configurations" by Ittelson (1952), defined as "configurations [in which] identical 'incoming messages' can come from different external physical arrangements. In the absence of other information,... equivalent configurations will be perceived as identical, no matter how different they be physically" (p. 55). http://www.answers.com/topic/adelbert-ames-jr Apr 12 06, 2:15 AM

xfacilitatorx

Interesting reading. http://psylux.psych.tu-dresden.de/i1/kaw/diverses%20Material/www.illusionworks.com/html/ames_room.html http://psylux.psych.tu-dresden.de/i1/kaw/diverses%20Material/www.illusionworks.com/html/ames_room.html Apr 12 06, 11:38 AM