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RUSHTON has shown that humming causes the eyes to vibrate and this, in turn, produces a stroboscopic effect when a sectored disk is viewed in steady light1. He demonstrated this phenomenon by using a black-and-white sectored disk rotated on a phonographic turntable. When a subject hummed at the correct frequency (determined by the speed of the turntable and the number of sectors on the disk), he saw the sectors standing motionless. Slightly lower and higher pitched hums produced apparent motions of the sectors in the clockwise and counterclockwise directions, respectively.
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Rushton, W. A. H., Nature, 216, 1173 (1967).
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WILLIAMS, P., WILLIAMS, T. Effect of Humming on Watching Television. Nature 239, 407 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/239407a0
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