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Reflections on inversion and reversion.

N D Haig
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A paper published recently in Perception has drawn attention to a question that appears to mystify psychologists, yet yields simply to the well-known law of reflection. The question of why a mirror reverses left and right, but not up and down, is explained in this paper, in terms of physical optics. The question of how mirror-reflected objects are perceived remains, of course, a psychological one.

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N D Haig. 1993. Reflections on inversion and reversion.. https://doi.org/10.1068/p220863

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