TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bruno,Nicola
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - A Conceptual History of Psychophysics: Ernst Weber’s Law of Desire 
SN  - 9783031665974
AV  - QP360-360.7 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Neuropsychology
KW  - Psychobiology
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Cognitive psychology
KW  - Psychophysiology
KW  - Biological Psychology
KW  - Theoretical Psychology
KW  - Cognitive Psychology
KW  - Physiological Psychology
N1  -  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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66597-4
ER  -