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Adám was professor of physiology at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
Contains Gordo N. Cantor's "Responses of Infants and Children to Complex and Novel Stimulation"; David S. Palermo's "Word Associations and Children's Verbal Behavior"; Howard V. Meredith's "Change in the Stature and Body Weight of North American Boys During the Last 80 Years"; Hayne W. Reese's "Discrimination Learning Set in Children"; Lewis P. Lipsitt's "Learning in the First Year of Life"; Sidney W. Bijou & Donald M. Baer's "Some Methodological Contributions from a Functional Analysis of Child Development"; Charles C. Spiker's "The Hypothesis of Stimulus Interaction and an Explanation of Stimulus Compounding"; Joachim F. Wohlwill's "The Development of 'Overconstancy' in Space Perception"; Betty J. House & David Zeaman's "Miniature Experiments in the Discrimination Learning of Retardates."
Contains Herbert Kaye's "Infant Sucking Behavior and Its Modification"; Robert J. Ellingson's "The Study of Brain Electrical Activity in Infants"; Eleanor E. Maccoby's "Selective Auditory Attention in Children"; Michael D. Zeiler's "Stimulus Definition and Choice"; Tracy S. & Howard H. Kendler's "Experimental Analysis of Inferential Behavior in Children"; Herbert L. Pick, Jr. et al.'s "Perceptual Integration in Children"; Raymond H. Hohle's "Component Process Latencies in Reaction Times of Children and Adults."
Conceived as an interplay between cognitive science, linguistics and philosophy, this presents a conceptual framework based on a dynamic and experimental approach to the problem of the continuum. Besides presenting the primitives of a theory of cognitive space and time, it presents a theory of the observer, analyzing the relationship among perspective, points of view and unity of consciousness. The book's chapters deal with the dynamic elaboration and recognition of forms from the lower to the higher processes in the various perceptual fields. Experimental analysis from visual, auditory and tactile perception outline the basic structures of intentionality and its counterpart in language and gesture.
- Contains 14 chapters: Albertazzi. Continua
- R. Pierantoni. The edges of images: considerations on continuity in representation
- J.J. Koenderink. Continua in Vision
- J.S. Lappin & W.A. van de Grind. Visual forms in space-time
- R.L. Klatzky & S.J. Lederman. Tactile object perception and the perceptual stream
- A.M.L. Kappers. Continuum of haptic space
- J.M. Kennedy. Touch and the observer's vantage point
- A.C. Zimmer. Berkeley's touch or: Is only one sensory modality the basis of the perception of reality
- G.B. Vicario. Breaking of continuity in the auditory field
- R.W.Oangacker. The limits of continuity: Discreteness in cognitive semantics
- S. Wilcox. The iconic mapping of space and time in signed languages.
The first systematic evaluation and rebuttal of Berkeley's influential theory. Bailey conclusively argued that infants must be able to discriminate objects on the basis of sight alone, contra Berkeley's belief that touch would also be required. So, whereas Berkeley and just about everybody else before Bailey deemed perception to consist of naive sensation followed by an inference, Bailey—à la the later Gestalt Psychologists—held that perception was unitary. See the excellent discussion in Nick Pastore's "Samuel Bailey's Critique of Berkeley's Theory of Vision" in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences I #4, pp. 321-337. Pastore notes that Bailey's method was phenomenological before there was a phenomenological psychology.A businessman, economist, and banker, Bailey more or less specialized in refuting widely held views in economics, psychology, philosophy, literary criticism, and political & social reform. One of his first publications was an 1825 critique of Ricardo's theory of value. His rebuttal of Berkeley did not have the influence in the 19th century that it should have. Both John Stuart Mill and J. F. Ferrier published scathing reviews of Bailey's book, the former in the Westminster Review and the latter in Blackwood's Magazine, which seem to have convinced most readers to ignore the book.
Wozniak Mind & Body #14. Bain's first book and the first modern textbook of psychology, The Senses and the Intellect dominated English psychology for decades.
Bartley was Professor of Psychology at the Laboratory for the Study of Vision and Related Sensory Processes, Michigan State University.
Contains Pringle "Prologue: The Input Element"; Rushton "The Retinal Organization of Vision in Vertebrates"; Wald et al. "Visual Excitation: a Chemo-anatomical Study"; Kuiper "The Optics of the Compound Eye"; Burtt & Catton "The Resolving Power of the Compound Eye"; Burkhardt "Spectral Sensitivity and Other Respose Characteristics of Single Visual Cells in the Arthropod Eye"; Heath & Vince "Some Non-photosynthetic Effects of Light on Higher Plants with Special Reference to Wavelength"; Whittingham "The Utilization of Radiant Energy in Photosynthesis"; Ingold "The Reaction of Fungi to Light and the Problem of Photoreception"; Davies "The Mechanism of Olaction"; Dethier "Chemoreceptor Mechanisms in Insects"; Audus "The Mechanism of the Perception of Gravity by Plants"; Machin "Electric Receptors"; Murray "Temperature Receptors in Anmimals"; von Békésy "The Gap Between the Hearing of External and Internal Sounds"; Trincker "The Transformation of Mechanical Stimulus into Nervous Excitation by the Labyrinthine Receptors"; Inman "The Electrophysiology of Single Mammalian Mechano-receptors"; Gray "Coding in Systems of Primary Receptor Neurons"; Loewenstein "Epilogue: Receptor Mechanisms."
Unaccountably, left out of the Norman Catalog.
Contains papers on disorders of visual agnosias, impaired object perception & spatial neglect, and abnormal visual imagery.
Jessop page 105; Wozniak Mind & Body page 36; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 752-3; Diamond 12.8. Perhaps the last truly important philosophical and psychological work from the Scottish Enlightenment and a book that profoundly influenced thinking in both fields, especially in 19th century America, the predominant philosophy & psychology of which was Scotch-realist until nearly the end of the century.Important in the development of association psychology, Brown solved the problem of objective reference by appealing to the felt resistance of muscular exertion. for the origin or our idea of an external world. Brown linked Berkeley to Lotze und Wundt through his theory of space perception and furthered associationism by postulating the secondary laws of association, termed by Brown laws of suggestion: relative duration of the sensations; their relative liveliness, frequency, & recency; the reinforcement of one idea by many others; individual differences; the attending circumstances. His primary laws were similarity; contrast; spatial & temporal contiguity.
Jessop page 105; Wozniak Mind & Body page 36; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 752-3; Diamond 12.8. Perhaps the last truly important philosophical and psychological work from the Scottish Enlightenment and a book that profoundly influenced thinking in both fields, especially in 19th century America, the predominant philosophy & psychology of which was Scottish-realist until nearly the end of the century.
Comprehensive collection of papers on the lateral line sensory system of fish.
Crabtree Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism #985. Introduced the concept of unconscious cerebration in the 4th edition.
Crabtree Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism #985; Wozniak Mind & Body: Renè Descartes to William James #9. Classic statement of dual interactionism in the mind/body literature [See Wozniak's NLM exhibit catalog]. Carpenter Introduced the concept of unconscious cerebration in the 4th edition (1852) of the earlier incarnation of this text as the outline of psychology section in the Principles of Human Physiology.
Contains Robert Leeper's "Theories of Personality"; Harlow's "Learning Theories"; J. J. Gibson's "Theories of Perception"; David Krech's "Cognition and Motivation in Psychological Theory"; David Rioch's "Theories of Psychotherapy"; McCulloch's "Brain and Behavior"; Herbert Feigl's "Principles and Problems of Theory Construction in Psychology"; Wayne Dennis's "Developmental Theories."
Bibliographs 1489 items, most annotated.
A philosophical study of perceptual consciousness in the tradition of the British realists.
Papers in English & French. Largely devoted to human-computer interaction with sections on language barriers and language training, group communications, and man-computer communication.
The author's doctoral dissertation at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn.
Hirst was Professor of Logic in the University of Glasgow.
Horrobin was a specialist in neurophysiology and endocrinology in the Department of Physiology, Magdalen College, Oxford.
Issue devoted to Psychology. Contains Alfred Winterstein's "Zur Problematik der Einfühlung und des psychologischen Verstehens"; Gustav Bally's "Die Wahrnehmungslehre Jaenschs und ihre Beziehung zu den psychoanlytischen Problemen"; Sabina Spielrein's "Kinderzeichnungen bei offenen und geschlossenen Augen"; Yrjö Kulovesi's "Psychoanalytische bemerkungen zur James-Langeschen Affekttheorie"; Siegfried Bernfeld's "Zur Sublimierungstheorie."
Contains Hermann Weil's "Sinnespsychologische Kriterion menschlicher Typen" and "Wahrnehmungsversuche an Integrierten und Nichtintegrierten"; Josef Gross's "Experimentelle Untersuchungen über den Integrationsgrad bei Kindern"; Oswald Müller's "Beiträge zur Lehre menschligher Typen nach der Methode unvollständiger Reizdarbietung"; Oscar Oeser's "Tachistoskopische Leseversuche als Beitrag zur strukturpsychologischen Typenlehre"; Hellmut Schenck's "Experimentall-strukturpsychologische Untersuchugn über gesehene Scheinbewegungen am Prismen-Pendeltachistoskop."
Credited with discovery of eidetic imagery and the related classification of persons into physiological types, Jaensch tried to establish a closer relation between psychology and philosophy. Contains by Ella Mayer's "Die Funtionsschichten der räumlichen Wahrnehmung"; Fritz Kranz's "Experimentell-strukturpsychologische Untersuchungen über die Abhängigkeit der Wahrnehmungswelt vom Persönlichkeitstypus"; Friedrich Simon's "Über das Zustandekommen der Tiefenwahrnehmung mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Bedeutung der Querdisparation"; Albert Kobusch's "Nachweis der Gedächtnisstufen im Vorstellungsleben normaler Erwachsener"; Heinrich Bamberger's "Über das Zustandekommen des Wirklichkeitseindrucks der Wahrnehmungswelt."
Only copy cited in OCLC is at the Rijksuniversiteit in Groningen, but listed in the Widener Library Shelflist, 43, Philosophy & Psychology Vol. I, p. 443. Lange was a senior primary school teacher (Oberlehrer) in Plauen, Saxony. Translated into English in 1893 for Heath's Pedagogical Series. There were at least 9 revised German editions through 1906. The last incarnation of the English translation was in 1911.A Herbartian study with a historical chapter detailing the views of Leibniz, Kant, Herbart, Lazarus, Steinthal, & Wundt on apperception.
Lévy-Schoen was chief of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
The second volume, Geste et action appeared the same year.
Of this book E. D. Adrian wrote: "Sir John's book was a masterly analysis of the facts and an unbiassed examination of the theories, both rare delights. Much of the material was assembled for the first time and given orderly presentation and meaning. His book soon became the classical work of reference on colour vision and its redressing of the balance between fact and theory gave a new impetus to the subject" [British Journal of Ophthalmology 1948, 32 (9): p. 519]. Adrian clearly regarded this as more important than Parsons' general study of perception, though it is the latter that made it into Garrison-Morton.
GM 1529. Parsons was ophthalmic surgeon at University College Hospital, and surgeon at the Royal London (Moorfields) Ophthalmic Hospital.Chapters on the genesis of perception; receptors; instinct; perceptual patterns; cutaneous sensations; the evidence from comparative anatomy; the dyscritic motor response; the perception of space; the dual mechanism of vision; epicritic vision; induction; visual excitation and conduction; comparative anatomy of the eye; man & his ancestors.
A classic philosophical treatment of the subject.
Contains Walter S. Hunter's "The Psychological Study of Behavior"; Clark L. Hull's "The Goal Gradient Hypothesis and Maze Learning"; Harry Helson's "Studies in the Theory of Perception. I. The Clearness-Context Theory"; J. P. Guilford's "A Generalized Psychophysical Law."
Contains Hovland's obit of Hull, Irvin I. Child & Ian K. Waterhouse's "Frustration and teh Quality of Performance: I. A Critique of the Barker, Dembo, and Lewin Experiment"; Gudmund Smith's "Development as a Psychological Reference System"; James J. Gibson's "The Relation between Visual and Postural Determinants of the Phenomenal Vertical"; Al Eglash's "The Dilemma of Fear as a Motivating Force"; Omar K. Moore & Donald J. Lewis' "Learning Theory and Culture"; Tolman's "A Cognition Motivation Model"; and Kendon Smith's "The Statistical Theory of the Figural After-Effect."
Contains Leonard Carmichael's obit of Yerkes; Aviva & Josh Menkes' "The Application of Dimensional Analysis to Learning"; Frank H. George & Joseph H. Handlon's "A Language for Perceptual Analysis"; Seymour Fisher & Sidney E. Cleveland's "An APproach to Physiological Reactivity in Terms of a Body-Image Schema"; R. H. Day's "The Physiological Basis of Form Perception in the Peripheral Retina"; Benton J. Underwood's "Interference and Forgetting"; Leo Postman & Donald A. Riley's "A Critique of Köhler's Theory of Association."
Contains S. S. Stevens' "On the Psychophysical Law"; Frank Restle's "Theory of Selective Learning with Probable Reinforecements"; H. Tajfel's "Value and the Perceptual Judgment of Magnitude"; D. E. Broadbent's "A Mechanical Model for Human Attention and Immediate Memory."
26 page bibliography.
Entirely devoted to the modeling of visual systems. Part I: The Biophysics of Information Transfer. Part II: The Organization of Computations in Visual Information Processing (contains David Marr's "Representing Visual Information").
Mostly devoted to a discussion of sense perception. The first volume, which set forth Schien's general psychology, appeared in 1922.
Contains L. v. Karpinska's "Experimentelle Beiträge zur Analyse der iefenwahrnehmung"; Hans Henning's "Das Panunmsche Phänomenon"; P. ZImmermann's "Über die Abhängigkeit des Tiefeneindrucks von der Deutlichkeit der Konturen."
Vision Research Supplement to Vol. 11, 1971.
Contributions by G.J. Warnock, D.M. Taylor, J.W.R. Cox, William Kneale, Sibley, Godfrey Vesey, Brian O'Shaughnessy, and Bernard Williams.
An amended version of his doctoral dissertation in linguistics at Georgetown. Uhlan, who was exceptionally erudite about the history of linguistics, might well have become a major theorist in the philosophy and psychology of language, had he not died prematurely.
Contains Bow Tong Lett's "Long-Delay Learning: Implications for Learning and Memory Theory"; Mark Georgeson's "Spatial Fourier Analysis and Human Vision"; Dennis H. Holding's "Echoic Storage"; Gregory V. Jones's "Analyzing Memory by Cuing: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Knowledge."
A very strong conference with papers by Jakobson, Halle, Attneave, Julesz, Broadbent, Haber, Gregory, Furth, et al.
GM-5 1463 (citing the journal appearances but mistakenly omitting the book); Heirs of Hippocrates 1981; Wozniak Mind and Body #40 & pp. 41-42; DSB XIV. Wundt's second—and first psychological—book, consisting of six papers originally published in the Zeitschrift für rationelle Medicin 1858-1862 (in vols. 4, 7, 12, 14, 15). For their publication in book form Wundt added an important 22 page introduction, "Ueber die Methoden in der Psychologie," in which he stressed—in quite modern-sounding terms—the need for psychology to be empirical and based on induction.
- "Carrying out much of his experimental work in his own home and on his own time, Wundt began the study of sense perception that led to a series of publications collected, in 1872, as his Beiträge zur Theorie der Sinneswahrnehmung. … In these articles, Wundt provided the basics of a psychological theory of the perception of space (including some discussion of the need for unconscious inference, apparently arrived at in independence of Helmholtz [whose assistant at Heidelberg Wundt was], reviewed the history of theories of vision, analyzed the psychological function of sensations arising from visual accomodation and eye movement, presented the results of experiments on binocular contrast effects and stereoscopic fusion, and argued, contra Herbart, that the content of consciousness at a given instant always consists of a single, unconsciously integrated percept.
- Although the body of the Beiträge is important in its own right for exemplifying the direction that Wundt' work was taking, it is his introduction on method, written specifically for the Beiträge, which marked the emergence of Wundt's plan for an experimental psychology. Rejecting a metaphysical foundation for psychology, Wundt argued for the need to transcend the limitations of the direct study of consciousness through the use of genetic, comparative, statistical, historical, and, particularly, experimental methods. Only in this way, he suggested, would it be possible to come to a needed understanding of conscious phenomena as 'complex products of the unconscious mind' (p. xvi)" [Wozniak pp. 41-42].
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