Physiological Psychology and Psycho-physics

The duality of psycho-physics

1. This conference on visual perception is in the land of Rene Descartes, who gave the first clear statement of the mind-body problem, and of Alain Aspect, the physicist whose recent experiments (to be discussed) cast doubt on an objective world that exists without being observed. It seems entirely appropriate to honor and connect the contributions of these two Frenchmen. 2. This particular ses...

Physics, Psychology, and Medicine

This 143-page essay by Professor Woodger is rewritten from a series of lectures given to the staff of the senior students of the Department of Physiology in the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Additional material to the student lectures was derived from Professor Woodger's Tarner Lectures published in 1952 under the title, Biology and Language. Essentially this is a plea for a broader educat...

Psychology as Physics

Progress in Physiological Psychology

This book appears to be the first of a series of books published by Academic Press and is listed as Volume 1. There is a similarly bound book edited by Roger Russell entitled Frontiers in Physiological Psychology published by Academic Press, but the publishers give no indication that it might be a volume in the same series as this one. Any book of contributed articles such as this runs the risk...

Physiological Psychology PSYC370