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This test was a prime part of Project XS-F2-U25?a scientific investigation of driving skill begun with $14,000 of FERA funds last September under the direction of Professor Harry Reginald DeSilva. Born 37 years ago in Pensacola, Fla., Harry DeSilva got a Ph. D. from Harvard, another from England's Cambridge, lectured at Canada's McGill. When he took charge of Massachusetts State's psychological laboratory three years ago, he was an imaginative, and mechanical-minded scientist, disillusioned with what he calls "pencil-&-paper" psychology and with antiquated gadgets which had changed little since Germany's Wundt...
...HARRY R. DESILVA University of Kansas Lawrence, Kans...
...reference to "Compass Boy," TIME, April 20, Science; it may interest Dr. DeSilva to know that the natives of Madagascar (where I recently spent several years), having no word for ''right" and "left" must say, "hand me that gourd to the northwest of you-pass me that pot to the southeast of you." Thus through many generations they have developed an uncanny sense of direction. After hours of night marching over ridges, down ravines, through swamps, I have seen my porters arrive at a strange village, in a strange neighborhood, squat down to cook their rice and manioc...
Last week Inquisitive Charles strutted before the neighborhood boys. He had been to Dr. Harry Reginald DeSilva's psychological laboratory at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, and had gone through experiments never before told behind a barn...
...laboratory, Dr. DeSilva blind-folded Charles, turned out the lights, and repeatedly whirled him rapidly in a chair. At first, Charles pointed correctly to North, East, West, South. By & by he became dizzy. Then he began making mistakes,, big ones. Obviously his sense of direction was not infallible. The way his mind worked-and this seems the probable method of homing birds and animals-must be this: without his being conscious of the details he was able to register automatically every turn he made, every landmark he saw, every fixed sound and smell he perceived...