This is a revised edition of "E.H. Weber: The Sense of Touch". The title has been broadened to reflect the fact that Weber explored all the skin senses - and indeed the muscle sense and that mysterious entity "the common feeling". The introduction has been expanded to include further information on Weber's life and times, and on recent research relevant to Weber's own work. The translations of Weber's main works of psychological interest "De Tactu" and "Der Tastsinn und das Gemeingefuehl" contain only minor changes, but the footnotes have been updated.; The reader will find here much more than those topics for which Weber is best known - the two-point threshold, experiments on weight discrimination, and a statement of what is now called Weber's Law. Weber also remarked on many aspects of sensory psychology - on left-right asymmetry in sensitivity, on visual resolution, the binocular combination of colours, the moon illusion, on summation, inhibition and adaptation in sensory systems, on the difference between simultaneous and successive presentations, on selective attention, the externalization of sensations and the difference between sensation and perception.
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The sensations aroused in the touch organ are of two sorts: for we perceive (1) a certain pressure or traction (2) heat or cold; but in both cases the sensation seems to depend on some sort of pressure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heavier from the lighter weight, two simultaneous impressions, elementary fibres, tactile acuity, sensory circles, common sensibility, immersed hand, weight discrimination, volar side, thinner cuticle, tactile sensitivity, peripheral endings, volar surface, weight perception, simultaneous sensations, touch organs, stationary hands, double impression, stronger sensation, two impressions, second sensation, second weight, two sensations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Der Tastsinn, Number of Experiment Weights, Number of Weights, Eduard Weber, Professor of Physics New!
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The sensations aroused in the touch organ are of two sorts: for we perceive (1) a certain pressure or traction (2) heat or cold; but in both cases the sensation seems to depend on some sort of pressure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heavier from the lighter weight, two simultaneous impressions, elementary fibres, tactile acuity, sensory circles, common sensibility, immersed hand, weight discrimination, volar side, thinner cuticle, tactile sensitivity, peripheral endings, volar surface, weight perception, simultaneous sensations, touch organs, stationary hands, double impression, stronger sensation, two impressions, second sensation, second weight, two sensations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Der Tastsinn, Number of Experiment Weights, Number of Weights, Eduard Weber, Professor of Physics New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Gestalt Psychology Cognitive Revolution by David Murray in Front Matter
- An Historical Introduction to Modern Psychology (International Library of Psychology) by Murphy Gardner in Front Matter
- A History of Western Psychology by David J. Murray in Front Matter
- Cognition as Intuitive Statistics by Gerd Gigerenzer in Front Matter
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