- General Editor’s Preface
- Preface
- Part I: Sensory Specification
- 1. Aristotle on the Five Senses, ca. 350 BCE
- 2. Isaac Newton on the Seven Colors of the Spectrum, 1675
- 3. Isaac Newton on the Color Circle, 1704
- 4. Thomas Young on Newton and the Excitation of the Retina by Colors, 1802
- 5. John Locke on Primary and Secondary Qualities, 1690
- 6. Charles Bell on Spinal Nerve Roots, 1811
- 7. François Magendie on Spinal Nerve Roots, 1822
- 8. Charles Bell on the Specificity of Sensory Nerves, 1811
- 9. Johannes Muffler on the Specific Energies of Nerves, 1838
- 10. Ernst Heinrich Weber on the Sense of Touch and Common Sensibility, 1846
- 11. Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz on the Three-Color Theory of Vision and Visual Specific Nerve Energies, 1860
- 12. Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz on the Resonance Theory of Hearing and Auditory Specific Nerve Energies, 1863
- 13. Max von Frey on the Four Cutaneous Senses, 1904
- 14. Edward Bradford Titchener on the Number of Sensory Elements, 1896
- Part II: Psychophysics and Sensory Measurement
- 15. Pierre Bouguer on the Differential Threshold for Illumination, 1760
- 16. Charles Eduard Joseph Delezenne on the Differential Threshold for the Pitch of Tones, 1827
- 17. Ernst Heinrich Weber on Weber’s Law, 1834
- 18. Gustav Theodor Fechner on Fechner’s Law, 1860
- 19. Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau on the Measurement of Sensation, 1872
- 20. Joseph Rémi Leopold Delboeuf on Sensed Contrast as the Measure of Sensation, 1883
- 21. Edward Bradford Titchener on the Sense Distance as the Measure of Sensation, 1905
- Part III: The Retinal Image and the Orientation of Perceived Objects
- 22. Epicurus on Perception of Objects as Mediated by the Images that Emanate from the Objects, ca. 300 BCE
- 23. Johannes Kepler on the Crystalline Humor as a Lens and the Inversion of the Retinal Image, 1604
- 24. William Molyneux on the Inverted Retinal Image, 1692
- 25. Johannes Miller on Subjective Visual Size and Position in Relation to the Retinal Image, 1826
- 26. George Malcolm Stratton on Visual Localization and the Inversion of the Retinal Image, 1897
- Part IV: The Visual Perception of Size and Distance
- 27. René Descartes on the Visual Perception of Size, Shape, and Distance, 1638
- 28. George Berkeley on the Visual Perception of Distance and Magnitude, 1709
- 29. Charles Wheatstone on Binocular Parallax and the Stereoscopic Perception of Depth, 1838
- Part V: Nativistic and Empiristic Theories of Space Perception
- 30. Immanuel Kant on the A Priori Nature of Space, 1781
- 31. Rudolf Hermann Lotze on Local Signs in Their Relation to the Perception of Space, 1852
- 32. Ernst Heinrich Weber on Sensory Circles and Cutaneous Space Perception, 1852
- 33. Ewald Hering on the Nativistic Theory of Visual Space Perception, 1864
- 34. Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz on Empiricism in Perception, 1866
- 35. Max Wertheimer on the Phi Phenomenon as an Example of Nativism in Perception, 1912
- Part VI: Objective Reference
- 36. George Berkeley on the Role of Association in the Objective Reference of Perception, 1709
- 37. Thomas Reid on the Distinction between Sensation and Perception, 1785
- 38. Thomas Brown on Sensation, Perception, and the Associative Explanation of Objective Reference, 1820
- 39. John Stuart Mill on the Permanent Possibilities of Sensation, 1865
- 40. Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz on Perception and the Unconscious Conclusion, 1866
- 41. Edward Bradford Titchener on the Context Theory of Meaning, 1910
- 42. Edwin Bissell Holt on Response as the Essence of Cognition, 1915
- 43. Max Wertheimer on Objects as Immediately Given to Consciousness, 1923
- Part VII: Cerebral Localization
- 44. René Descartes on the Interaction of Mind and Brain, 1650
- 45. Franz Joseph Gall on Phrenology, the Localization of the Functions of the Brain, 1825
- 46. Pierre Jean Marie Flourens on the Functions of the Brain, 1824
- 47. Paul Broca on the Speech Center, 1861
- 48. Gustav Fritsch and Eduard Hitzig on Cerebral Motor Centers, 1870
- 49. John Hughlings Jackson on Dissolution of the Nervous System, 1884
- 50. Shepherd Ivory Franz on the Variability of the Motor Centers, 1915
- 51. Karl Spencer Lash!ey on Cerebral Equipotentiality and Mass Action, 1929
- 52. Henry Head on Vigilance, 1926
- Part VIII: Psychophysiological Isomorphism
- 53. Ewald Hering: Anticipation of Psychophysiolgical Isomorphism, 1878
- 54. Georg Elias Muller on the Psychophysical Axioms, 1896
- 55. Max Wertheimer on the Isomorphic Relation between Seen Movement and Cortical Short Circuit, 1912
- 56. Wolfgang Kohler on Isomorphism, 1920
- Part IX: The Reflex
- 57. René Descartes on Mechanism in Human Action, 1662
- 58. Julien Offray de la Mettrie on the Extension of Mechanism to the Human Soul, 1748
- 59. David Hart!ey on Voluntary and Involuntary Action, 1749
- 60. Robert Whytt on Empirical Reflexology, 1751
- 61. George Prochaska on the Nervous System, 1784
- 62. Marshall Hall on the Spinal Nervous System, 1843, 1850
- 63. Ivan Miehailovieh Seehenov on Reflexology and Psychology, 1863
- 64. John Dewey against Reflexology, 1896
- Part X: Association
- 65. Aristotle on the Associative Nature of Memory, ca. 350 BCE
- 66. Thomas Hobbes on the Train of Thought, 1651
- 67. John Locke on Disorders of the Mind, 1700
- 68. George Berkeley on Arbitrary Connections among Ideas, 1733
- 69. David Hume on a Psychological Analogue of Gravitation, 1739
- 70. David Hartley on Association: Successive and Simultaneous, Simple and Complex, 1749
- 71. Thomas Brown on the Secondary Laws of Association, 1820
- 72. James Mill on Mental Mechanics, 1829
- 73. John Stuart Mill on Mental Chemistry, 1843
- 74. Herbert Spencer on Intelligence, 1855
- 75. William James on the Limitations of Associationism, 1890
- 76. Wilhelm Wundt on Psychological Analysis and Creative Synthesis, 1896
- Part XI: Evolution and Individual Differences
- 77. Charles Robert Darwin on the Theory of Evolution, 1859
- 78. Francis Galton on the Inheritance of Intelligence, 1869
- 79. Francis Galton on Mental Capacity, 1883
- 80. James McKeen Cattell on Mental Tests, 1890
- 81. Alfred Binet and Victor Henri on the Psychology of Individual Differences, 1895
- 82. Hermann Ebbinghaus on the Completion Test, 1897
- 83. Stella Emily Sharp on a Test of Mental Testing, 1899
- 84. Clark Wissler on the Inadequacy of Mental Tests, 1901
- 85. Charles Edward Spearman on General Intelligence, 1904
- 86. William Stern on the Mental Quotient, 1912
- Part XII: Comparative Psychology
- 87. George John Romanes on Comparative Psychology, 1882
- 88. Conwy Lloyd Morgan on Lloyd Morgan’s Canon, 1894
- 89. Jacques Loeb on Associative Memory, 1899
- 90. Herbert Spencer Jennings on the Continuity of Psychological Processes, 1906
- Part XIII: Functionalism
- 91. William James on the Function of Consciousness, 1890
- 92. James Mark Baldwin on the Psychology of Children, 1895
- 93. James Rowland Angell on Functionalism, 1906
- 94. John Broadus Watson on Behaviorism, 1913
- Part XIV: Learning
- 95. Hermann Ebbinghaus on the Learning of Nonsense Syllables, 1995
- 96. Mary Whiton Calkins on the Learning of Paired Associates, 1896
- 97. Edward Lee Thorndike on Animal Learning, 1898
- 98. Robert Mearns Yerkes on the Intelligence of the Turtle, 1901
- 99. Willard Stanton Small on the Maze, 1901
- 100. Edward Lee Thorndike and Robert Sessions Woodworth on Transfer of Training, 1901
- 101. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov on Conditioned Reflexes, 1904
- 102. Wolfgang Kohler on the Insight of Apes, 1917
- Part XV: The Nature of Psychology
- 103. René Descartes, 1650
- 104. John Locke, 1690
- 105. Immanuel Kant, 1781
- 106. Johannes Müller, 1840
- 107. Gustav Theodor Fechner, 1860
- 108. Alexander Bain, 1873
- 109. Wilhelm Wundt, 1896
- 110. Ernst Mach, 1886
- 111. Edward Bradford Titchener, 1910
- 112. Franz Brentano, 1874
- 113. James Ward, 1886
- 114. William James, 1890
- 115. Robert Sessions Woodworth, 1918
- 116. Willim McDougall, 1923
- List of Excerpted Works
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
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