02876nam a22004815i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001600169072002300185072001500208100007600223245011800299250001800417264007900435300004200514336002600556337002600582338003600608347002400644505023300668520104300901650002101944650001901965650001601984650002602000650002202026650002102048650002702069650002802096650002602124650003002150710003402180773002602214776003602240776003602276776003602312856004602348978-3-031-66597-4DE-He21320251030112909.0cr nn 008mamaa240824s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316659747 a10.1007/978-3-031-66597-42doi 4aQP360-360.7 7aJMM2bicssc 7aPSY0200002bisacsh 7aJMM2thema1 aBruno, Nicola.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut12aA Conceptual History of Psychophysicsh[electronic resource] :bErnst Weber’s Law of Desire /cby Nicola Bruno.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aIX, 75 p. 10 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 a Chapter 1: “To investigate the essence, I take it to be an impossible endeavour”- Chapter 2. The marriage of heaven and hell -- Chapter 3. The doors of perception -- Chapter 4. The calculus of desire -- Chapter 5. Epilogue.  aThis book explores the concept of psychophysics and details the development of the ideas which made the mathematisation of desire possible. The experience of desire accompanies us all throughout life, but dealing with it as psychologists and scientists is far from easy. Psychophysics was conceived to help map, mathematically, these unknowable feelings of desire. As such, this book will help to provide an accessible account of psychophysics while telling the story of its creation, which was, in essence, the birth of scientific psychology and contemporary cognitive neuroscience, alongside many of the technologies which characterize the contemporary world. It is a strange and intriguing story, which begins with the German physiologist Ernst Heinrich Weber in the first half of the nineteenth century, and its story will help the reader gain fresh insight into how scientists came to be able to map and quantify complex and private emotional states. Nicola Bruno is Professor of General Psychology at The University of Parma, Italy. 0aNeuropsychology. 0aPsychobiology. 0aPsychology. 0aCognitive psychology. 0aPsychophysiology.14aNeuropsychology.24aBiological Psychology.24aTheoretical Psychology.24aCognitive Psychology.24aPhysiological Psychology.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303166596708iPrinted edition:z978303166598108iPrinted edition:z978303166599840uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66597-4