An Experimental Study of Sensation
Cambridge: Harvard Psychological Laboratory, 1903.
Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #10066
Library REBIND in hardcover, library stamps/marks/labels/slip, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "Printed for the use in the Elementary Experimental Courses of the Harvard Psychological Laboratory" - title page. Undated, with Preface bearing October, 1903 date. "The chief phenomena exhibited by each of the senses are, we may say, the following: Threshold, Intensity, Latent Period, Duration, After Image, Exhaustion, Perception of Time, Perception of Space, and Feeling Tone. In the present course these phenomena are studied under several senses successively, since it has been found by the authors that this repetition of the same phenomenon under different senses enables the student to grasp the complex subject of sensation with relative ease. The authors believe, moreover, that such an arrangement emphasizes a fact of which the significance to psychology has been much underestimated." - Preface. Contents: Preface; I. Preliminary Experiments of the Dermal Senses: 1. The Sensory Apparatus of Touch; 2. The Sensory Apparatus of Pain; II. The Sense of Touch: 1. Threshold of Stimulation, Threshold of Difference; 2. Latent Period, Duration, After Image; 3. Exhaustion, Adaptation; 4. Contrast; 5. Summation, Fusion; 6. Inhibition; 7. Perception of Time; Perception of Space; 9. Feeling-Tone; III. The Sense of Warmth: 1. Threshold, Intensity; 2. Latent Period, Duration, After Image; 3. Exhaustion, Adaptation; 4. Contrast; 5. Summation, Fusion; 6. Inhibition; 7. Perception of Time; Perception of Space; 9. Feeling-Tone; IV. The Sense of Cold: 1. Threshold, Intensity; 2. Latent Period, Duration, After Image; 3. Exhaustion, Adaptation; 4. Contrast; 5. Summation, Fusion; 6. Inhibition; 7. Perception of Time; Perception of Space; 9. Feeling-Tone; VI. The Sense of Movement: 1. Threshold, Intensity; 2. Latent Period, Duration, After Image; 3. Exhaustion, Adaptation; 4. Contrast; 5. Summation, Fusion; 6. Inhibition; 7. Perception of Time; Perception of Space; 9. Feeling-Tone; VII. The Sense of Fatigue; VIII. The Sense of Taste; IX. The Sense of Smell: 1. Threshold, Intensity; 2. Latent Period, Duration, After Image; 3. Exhaustion, Adaptation; 4. Contrast; 5. Summation, Fusion; 6. Inhibition; 7. Perception of Time; Perception of Space; 9. Feeling-Tone; X. The Sense of Sound: 1. Threshold, Intensity; 2. Latent Period, Duration, After Image; 3. Exhaustion, Adaptation; 4. Contrast; 5. Summation, Fusion; 6. Inhibition; 7. Perception of Time; Perception of Space; 9. Feeling-Tone; XI. The Sense of Vision: 1. Threshold, Intensity; 2. Latent Period, Duration, After Image; 3. Exhaustion, Adaptation; 4. Contrast; 5. Summation, Fusion; 6. Inhibition; 7. Perception of Time; Perception of Space; 9. Feeling-Tone. Quite uncommon, one of the earliest works published by either - let alone both - of Harvard's pioneering and influential psychology professors. ; Ex-Library; 53 pages.
Price: $499.95