. Thinking, feeling, doing . ble conducting cord, fastened to the handle of thefoil, hung in a loop from the back of the neck. A largemetal disk was placed directly in front of the fencer at adistance of 75cm. Just above this disk was a flag held ona foil by an operator standing behind it. A movement ofthe flag was the signal upon which the lunge was ex-ecuted. The spark method of recording was so arranged thatthe primary circuit passed through the electric switch, aspark-coil, the flexible conducting cords, the foils, andeither one of the two disks. Every make and break ofthis circuit made a
. Thinking, feeling, doing . ble conducting cord, fastened to the handle of thefoil, hung in a loop from the back of the neck. A largemetal disk was placed directly in front of the fencer at adistance of 75cm. Just above this disk was a flag held ona foil by an operator standing behind it. A movement ofthe flag was the signal upon which the lunge was ex-ecuted. The spark method of recording was so arranged thatthe primary circuit passed through the electric switch, aspark-coil, the flexible conducting cords, the foils, andeither one of the two disks. Every make and break ofthis circuit made a spark record on the drum. As longas the foils rested against the disks the current was movement of the flag-foil broke the circuit for an in- 56 Thinking, Feeling, Doing. stant, making a record of the moment of first movement of the fencers foil broke thecircuit again at the small disk, making a record ofthe moment of reaction. The striking of the foilagainst the large disk made a third record. The time. Fig. 26. Measuring Mental and Muscular Time in Fencing. Second experi-ment. between the first and second records gave the simple re-action-time ; that between the second and third gave thetime of movement through the given distance. Aboutten experiments were made on each person. In the second experiment the flag-foil was moved invarious directions. The point of the foil rested againstthe small disk. The movement in any way of the flag wasthe signal for a corresponding movement of the of discrimination and choice were thus introducedinto the reaction-time. The movement of the foils gave Thinking- Time. 57 records as before. The time required can be called thereaction-time with discrimination and choice. About tenexperiments were made on each person. The persons experimented upon consisted of Hammond, Dr. Echverria, Dr. P. F. OCon-nor, and Mr. Shaw (all expert amateur fencers), , master of arms of the New York Athletic Club,Prof.
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