1802 CABANIS, Pierre Jean Georges (1757 – 1808)
Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13620 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15900
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
1865 SPENCER, Herbert (1820 – 1903)
Principles of psychology.
"Spencer's second book, Principles of Psychology, published in 1855, explored a physiological basis for psychology, and was the fruit of his friendship with Evans and Lewes. The book was founded on the fundamental ass…
GMN 13516 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15791
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
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
1928 –1941 PAVLOV, Ivan Petrovich (1849 – 1936)
Lectures on conditioned reflexes. 2 vols.
Besides his work on digestion, Pavlov is remembered for his investigations upon conditioned reflexes. An English translation of another work by Pavlov, entitled Conditioned reflexes, appeared in 1927.
GMN 1445 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2244
1967 THOMPSON, Richard Frederick (1930 – 2014)
Foundations of physiological psychology.
GMN 8865 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11043
