1858 WUNDT, Wilhelm Maximilian (1832 – 1920)
Beiträge zur Theorie der Sinneswahrnehmung.
Sensory perception. Wundt was one of the founders of experimental psychology.
GMN 1463 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2398
1860 FECHNER, Gustav Theodor (1801 – 1887)
Elemente der Psychophysik. 2 vols.
The first treatise on the subject. Fechner applied the laws of mathematical physics to the physiology of sensation. He discussed the functional relations of the dependence between mind and body and investigated the cu…
GMN 4972 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6387
1868 DONDERS, Frans Cornelis (1818 – 1889)
Die Schnelligkeit psychischer Prozesse.
Donders was the first to measure the reaction-time of a psychical process.
GMN 4974 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6394
1873 –1874 WUNDT, Wilhelm Maximilian (1832 – 1920)
Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie. 2 pts.
Wundt made experimental investigations of normal individual reactions, reflex responses, and general behavior, and interpreted them in terms of neural mechanisms. He was the founder of experimental psychology, and his…
GMN 4976 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6396
1877 –1882 PLATEAU, Joseph Antoine Ferdinand (1801 – 1883)
Bibliographie analytique des principaux phénomènes subjectifs de la vision, depuis les temps anciens jusqu'a la fin du XVIIIe siècle, suivie d'une bibliographie simple pour la partie écoulée du siècle actuel.
Première section: Persistance des impressions sur la rétine. Deuxième section: couleurs accidentelles ordinaires du succession. Troisième section: images qui succèdent à la contemplation d'objets brillants. Quatrième …
GMN 9640 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11827
1885 EBBINGHAUS, Hermann (1850 – 1909)
Über das Gedachtnis: Untersuchungen zur experimentellen Psychologie.
Ebbinghaus conducted a series of experiments on memory and forgetting using himself as subject. Out of this came concepts such as the learning curve and the forgetting curve, and the serial position effect. Digital fa…
GMN 13153 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15412
1886 MACH, Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel (1838 – 1916)
Beiträge zur Analyse der Empfindungen.
Translated into English by C. M .Williams and Sydney Waterlow as The Analysis of Sensations (1897). Revised and supplemented from the Fifth German edition by Sydney Waterlow (1914). Digital facsimile of the 1886 editi…
GMN 10450 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12643
1890 JAMES, William (1842 – 1910)
The principles of psychology. 2 vols.
The foundation of the American school of experimental psychology. Under the influence of Wundt, James viewed psychology as an experimental science based on physiology. He founded the earliest laboratory for the study …
GMN 4977.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6398
1909 SIDIS, Boris (1867 – 1923)
An experimental study of sleep. (From the Physiological Laboratory of the Harvard Medical School and from Sidis' Laboratory).
Sidis emphasized his physiological approach in the wording of the title of this book. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12455 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14687
1912 HOLLINGWORTH, Harry Levi (1880 – 1956)
The influence of caffeine on mental and motor efficiency. Columbia Contributions to Philosophy and Psychology, Vol. XX, No. 4.
"The Coca-Cola Company, facing a lawsuit from the federal government under the Pure Food and Drug Act, approached Hollingworth (after James McKeen Cattell and several other psychologists turned them down)[4] about inv…
GMN 13522 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15797
1961 SPERRY, Roger Wolcott (1913 – 1994)
Cerebral organization and behavior: The split brain behaves in many respects like two separate brains, providing new research possibilities.
Sperry and colleagues, including Michael Gazzaniga, conducted extensive experiments on an epileptic patient who had had his corpus collosum, the "bridge" between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, split so t…
GMN 9648 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11835
1963 SPERRY, Roger Wolcott (1913 – 1994)
Chemoaffinity in the orderly growth of nerve fiber patterns and connections.
Sperry's chemoaffinity hypothesis, which states that neurons make connections with their targets based on interactions with specific molecular markers[1] and, therefore, that the initial wiring diagram of an organism …
GMN 9647 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11834
1979 BAKER, Henry J.; LINDSEY, J. Russell; WEISBROTH, Steven H.
The laboratory rat, Volume 1: Biology and disease. Edited by Henry J. Baker, J. Russell Lindsey, Steven H. Weisbroth.
Chapter 1: Historical Foundations by J. Russell Lindsey.
GMN 8474 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10651
1986 BARSANTI, Giulio
Misur d’uomo. Strumenti, teorie e pratiche dell’antropometria e della psicologia sperimentale tra ‘800 e ‘900.
Extensively annotated and illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of books and instruments documenting the history of measuring techniques in physical anthropology and experimental psychology in the 18th and 19th centu…
GMN 197.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3508
