Enter a doorway, move spirally, and you arrive at a dark inner chamber, where the five neon-lighted points of a white star built into the floor under glass appear to recede infinitely downward because of built-in mirrors.
Constantly tilting his head downward and receding, he appears to be leaving a room even when he is walking in.
That is something known as "liquefaction". As the storm surge recedes, the sudden decrease in downward pressure on the saturated soil causes the sand to liquefy, to flow out like a heavy slurry.
In Experiment 1 (hereafter referred to as 'Loom'), the target was a visual looming disc and/or an auditory upward frequency-modulated (FM) sweep whereas in Experiment 2 ('Recede'), the target was a visual receding disc and/or an auditory downward FM sweep.
The receding auditory signal consisted of a downward FM sweep centered at 1 kHz and ranging from 1.25 kHz to 0.75 kHz.
In the Loom experiment, targets were looming visual signals and/or upward auditory FM sweeps; in the Recede experiment, targets were visual receding signals and/or downward auditory FM sweeps.
The economic efficiency that came with wider use of information technologies provided a further check on prices.IT-led gains in productivity may now be petering out and Mr Greenspan expects the downward pressure on inflation from globalisation to recede too.
This was tested in the Recede experiment, where oddballs were visual receding signals and/or downward auditory FM sweeps.
Since lower interest rates diminish the appeal of euro-denominated assets, the euro tends to edge downward when the prospect of higher interest rates recedes.
Already it was receding, swifter and swifter, in the last stage of its headlong journey downward into the sun.
In the Recede experiment (Figure 1, second row), the auditory (visual) target was paired with a receding disc (downward FM sweep).
