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B. Visual-motor type; enjoyed the tragic and melancholy as
much as the light romantic; acquainted with English poetry,
favored Byron, Keats and rVrnold; he alone of all the subjects
gave much introspection of the sensations of the speech appara¬
tus; gave much introspection; good sense of rhythm; steady
and constant.
C. Motor type; rarely got satisfying imagery of any sort; had
great difficulty to count the five iambics in the “la-mo type of
experiment ; sense of rhythm varied much with the type of experi¬
ment ; introspection meagre ; steady and constant.
D. Very visual, with highly colored images; artistically gifted
and fond of poetry; enjoyed the bizarre as well as the sombre;
rather volatile, but rebounded instantly from depressed states ;
strong sense of rhythm.
F. Visual-motor; fond of poetry; good declaimer, and often
varied from a steady recitation of the material experimented
upon ; articulation sensations often seemed to determine the
imagery ; German : had some slight difficulty in pronouncing the
“th” and other sounds; strong sense of rhythm; constant.
K. Visual-auditory-motor; musical performer; esthetic; liked
the melancholy ; voice usually of medium pitch but very low
intensity ; pitch constantly noticed ; féeling of hoarseness accom¬
panied low pitches ; tapped very short strokes, often no more than
12 mm. in length; syncoped the tappings very frequently; good
sense of rhythm; constant.
L. Visual-motor; artistic, and fond of certain kinds of poetry,
e.g. the sound of Shelley’s and the content of Arnold’s ; introspec¬
tion varied much, from bare feeling-tone to full auditory-visual-
motor content; very apt in describing vague content by fitting
analogy; good sense of rhythm; steady and constant.
M. Motor type; practical, and impatient of most poetry ; often
given to intentional changes of extent of finger movement; wanted
objective finger control (the most inconsistent subject as far as
any feeling-tone =motor-discharge correlation was concerned) ;
said : “I have a good sense of rhythm,” which did not always
appear.