03269nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-66597-4 DE-He213 20251030112909.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240824s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031665974 978-3-031-66597-4 10.1007/978-3-031-66597-4 doi QP360-360.7 JMM bicssc PSY020000 bisacsh JMM thema Bruno, Nicola. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 82811 A Conceptual History of Psychophysics [electronic resource] : Ernst Weber’s Law of Desire / by Nicola Bruno. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. IX, 75 p. 10 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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. This 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. Neuropsychology. 72983 Psychobiology. 73728 Psychology. 63758 Cognitive psychology. Psychophysiology. 82812 Neuropsychology. 72983 Biological Psychology. 80607 Theoretical Psychology. 78388 Cognitive Psychology. Physiological Psychology. 82813 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031665967 Printed edition: 9783031665981 Printed edition: 9783031665998 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66597-4 ZDB-2-BSP ZDB-2-SXBP 62695 62695