Sensory Specification / Part I: |
Aristotle on the Five Senses, ca. 350 B.C. / 1: |
Isaac Newton on the Seven Colors of the Spectrum, 1675 / 2: |
Isaac Newton on the Color Circle, 1704 / 3: |
Thomas Young on Newton and the Excitation of the Retina by Colors, 1802 / 4: |
John Locke on Primary and Secondary Qualities, 1690 / 5: |
Charles Bell on Spinal Nerve Roots, 1811 / 6: |
Francois Magendie on Spinal Nerve Roots, 1822 / 7: |
Charles Bell on the Specificity of Sensory Nerves, 1811 / 8: |
Johannes Muffler on the Specific Energies of Nerves, 1838 / 9: |
Ernst Heinrich Weber on the Sense of Touch and Common Sensibility, 1846 / 10: |
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz on the Three-Color Theory of Vision and Visual Specific Nerve Energies, 1860 / 11: |
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz on the Resonance Theory of Hearing and Auditory Specific Nerve Energies, 1863 / 12: |
Max von Frey on the Four Cutaneous Senses, 1904 / 13: |
Edward Bradford Titchener on the Number of Sensory Elements, 1896 / 14: |
Psychophysics and Sensory Measurement / Part II: |
Pierre Bouguer on the Differential Threshold for Illumination, 1760 / 15: |
Charles Eduard Joseph Delezenne on the Differential Threshold for the Pitch of Tones, 1827 / 16: |
Ernst Heinrich Weber on Weber's Law, 1834 / 17: |
Gustav Theodor Fechner on Fechner's Law, 1860 / 18: |
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau on the Measurement of Sensation, 1872 / 19: |
Joseph Remi Leopold Delboeuf on Sensed Contrast as the Measure of Sensation, 1883 / 20: |
Edward Bradford Titchener on the Sense Distance as the Measure of Sensation, 1905 / 21: |
The Retinal Image and the Orientation of Perceived Objects / Part III: |
Epicurus on Perception of Objects as Mediated by the Images that Emanate from the Objects, ca. 300 B.C. / 22: |
Johannes Kepler on the Crystalline Humor as a Lens and the Inversion of the Retinal Image, 1604 / 23: |
William Molyneux on the Inverted Retinal Image, 1692 / 24: |
Johannes Miller on Subjective Visual Size and Position in Relation to the Retinal Image, 1826 / 25: |
George Malcolm Stratton on Visual Localization and the Inversion of the Retinal Image, 1897 / 26: |
The Visual Perception of Size and Distance / Part IV: |
Rene Descartes on the Visual Perception of Size, Shape, and Distance, 1638 / 27: |
George Berkeley on the Visual Perception of Distance and Magnitude, 1709 / 28: |
Charles Wheatstone on Binocular Parallax and the Stereoscopic Perception of Depth, 1838 / 29: |
Nativistic and Empiristic Theories of Space Perception / Part V: |
Immanuel Kant on the A Priori Nature of Space, 1781 / 30: |
Rudolf Hermann Lotze on Local Signs in Their Relation to the Perception of Space, 1852 / 31: |
Ernst Heinrich Weber on Sensory Circles and Cutaneous Space Perception, 1852 / 32: |
Ewald Hering on the Nativistic Theory of Visual Space Perception, 1864 / 33: |
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz on Empiricism in Perception, 1866 / 34: |
Max Wertheimer on the Phi Phenomenon as an Example of Nativism in Perception, 1912 / 35: |
Objective Reference / Part VI: |
George Berkeley on the Role of Association in the Objective Reference of Perception, 1709 / 36: |
Thomas Reid on the Distinction between Sensation and Perception, 1785 / 37: |
Thomas Brown on Sensation, Perception, and the Associative Explanation of Objective Reference, 1820 / 38: |
John Stuart Mill on the Permanent Possibilities of Sensation, 1865 / 39: |
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz on Perception and the Unconscious Conclusion, 1866 / 40: |
Edward Bradford Titchener on the Context Theory of Meaning, 1910 / 41: |
Edwin Bissell Holt on Response as the Essence of Cognition, 1915 / 42: |
Max Wertheimer on Objects as Immediately Given to Consciousne / 43: |
Sensory Specification / Part I: |
Aristotle on the Five Senses, ca. 350 B.C. / 1: |
Isaac Newton on the Seven Colors of the Spectrum, 1675 / 2: |