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which when triggered would light either of two square blocks. The agent would attempt to perceive the light in one room while the receiver would use a switch to identify which lamp had been lit in the other room. Troland discovered that the subjects had produced below chance expectations.
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Nela research lab. He served as a member of committees of the National Research Council on vision and aviation psychology. At Harvard, he gave advanced courses in psychology, and he followed up his 1926 book
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which were reported in 1917. He was one of the first scientists to use a machine in this type of experiment instead of a human experimenter. The machine consisted of a
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Motion Picture Corporation of California and was appointed director of research at Technicolor in 1925.
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A Technique for the Experimental Study of Telepathy and Other Alleged Clairvoyant Processes
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The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900-1939
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Lives and Letters in American Parapsychology: A Biographical History, 1850-1897
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The Nature of Matter and Electricity: An Outline of Modern Views
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with a degree in biochemistry. He then studied psychology at
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In 1932, he fell to his death from the observatory near
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in 1928. At the same time, he was chief engineer of the
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Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
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Leonard Thompson Troland

Norwalk, Connecticut
Physics
psychology
physicist
psychologist
psychical researcher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
General Electric
Technicolor
Optical Society of America
troland
photometric
luminance
human eye
pupil
National Academy of Sciences
award
Pasadena CA
Mount Wilson
psychical research
telepathy
Harvard University
lamp
The Nature of Matter and Electricity: An Outline of Modern Views
The Fundamentals of Human Motivation
Optical Society of America
Troland Research Awards

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