LEADER 03275nam 22006975 450 001 9910882890703321 005 20241122200832.0 010 $a3-031-66597-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-66597-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31612522 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31612522 035 $a(CKB)34227586500041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-66597-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9934227586500041 100 $a20240824d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Conceptual History of Psychophysics $eErnst Weber?s Law of Desire /$fby Nicola Bruno 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (79 pages) 311 $a3-031-66596-1 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $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. 606 $aNeuropsychology 606 $aPsychobiology 606 $aPsychology 606 $aCognitive psychology 606 $aPsychophysiology 606 $aNeuropsychology 606 $aBiological Psychology 606 $aTheoretical Psychology 606 $aCognitive Psychology 606 $aPhysiological Psychology 606 $aPsicofísica$2thub 606 $aHistòria$2thub 608 $aLlibres electrònics$2thub 615 0$aNeuropsychology. 615 0$aPsychobiology. 615 0$aPsychology. 615 0$aCognitive psychology. 615 0$aPsychophysiology. 615 14$aNeuropsychology. 615 24$aBiological Psychology. 615 24$aTheoretical Psychology. 615 24$aCognitive Psychology. 615 24$aPhysiological Psychology. 615 7$aPsicofísica 615 7$aHistòria 676 $a152.1 700 $aBruno$b Nicola$0774460 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910882890703321 996 $aA Conceptual History of Psychophysics$94209936 997 $aUNINA