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and contact terms. Our purpose was to study the ability of 

 humans to learn a maze under similar conditions. The elimina- 

 tion of vision was thus essential to the attainment of our pur- 

 pose with any degree of probability. The possible disturbing 

 factor is not the elimination of vision but rather the presence 

 of a bandage. 



All four adult subjects and one of the children were familiar 

 with maze experimentation and three of these were very familiar 

 with the rat maze. It was thus necessary to construct the 

 human maze on a plan entirely dissimilar to that of the Hampton 



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Figure 1. Ground plan of the maze used by the human subjects. 



Court maze, and yet to preserve a comparable set of difficulties. 

 The Hampton maze presents seven blind alleys, while the human 

 maze was constructed with nine. The individual cut de sacs of 

 the rat maze are probably the more difficult. Any comparison 

 of the relative difficulty and complexity of the two mazes is 

 a matter of opinion, though in our estimation the rat maze is 

 the more difficult. jg| 



The matter of constructing mazes of comparable size presents 

 difficulties. Shall the lengths of the pathways be proportionate 

 to the body lengths, to the length of stride, or to the rate of 

 movement? The results will vary according to the criterion 



