COGNITION, INFORMATION PROCESSING, AND PSYCHOPHYSICS: Basic Issues

GEISSLER, Hans-Georg, LINK, Stephen W. & TOWNSEND, James T. (eds)

ISBN 10: 0805809953 / ISBN 13: 9780805809954

Published by Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale NJ. Hove, E.Sussex and London, 1992

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xiv+333, num. text figs numbered by chapter; a pristine copy, genuine 1st ed. as confirmed by printing code verso t.p. 13 chapters on a range of topics including a historical opening chapter on Fechner and others on e.g. cognition, pain perception and consciousness. Emerged from a 1987 conference on in Leipzig on centenary of Fechner's death. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range. Size: 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: COGNITION, INFORMATION PROCESSING, AND PSYCHOPHYSICS: Basic Issues
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale NJ. Hove, E.Sussex and London
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805809953
• ISBN 13: 9780805809954
• Binding: Grey printed cloth
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (assume none issued)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology & Human Sciences

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Synopsis

The plan for this volume emerged during the international Leipzig conference commemorating the centenary of the death of Gustav Fechner. The contributors suggested that while many features of modern psychological theory were anticipated by Fechner, many new theoretical approaches owe much more to him than often is realized. As such, they decided to honor Fechner by evaluating his own contribution to the founding of psychology and psychoanalysis, by deepening the foundations of psychological theories of consciousness, perception, and choice, and by using the analysis of time to create a new appreciation of constraints that bind mental processes together.

Thus, this volume spans an extraordinary range of psychological topics, from hermeneutics to the time-quantum basis for mental processes, in a way that would both amaze and delight Fechner. Moreover, the international reach of his pioneering ideas can be seen from the current locations of the contributors. The span from Japan to the United States to Holland to Germany and to Israel provides a global measure of Fechner's scientific legacy.

About the Author

James T. Townsend, Hans-Georg Geissler, Stephen W. Link