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Contributions to the history of psychology: CXIX. The Spanish Neurohistological School's legacy: Cajal and Lorente de Nó.

2003

Santiago Ramón y Cajal made his mark in the history of science as a brilliant researcher of the histology of the nervous system. His bold efforts and the international recognition he received during his lifetime played an important role in the consolidation of the Spanish Neurohistological School which is composed of a large number of eminent disciples. Amongst these, and of outstanding repute, is Rafael Lorente de Nó whose research had a significant influence on the work of Canadian psychologist Donald O. Hebb and, consequently, on the development of neurophysiological theory. This paper analyses some of the contributions of Cajal and his disciple Lorente de Nó which formed the anatomical…

Searching for the human factor : psychology, power and ideology in Hungary during the early Kádár period

2016

A Note on the Horizontal-Vertical Illusion - A Reply to Wade (2014).

2016

Like many others before him, Nicholas Wade, in a recent publication in this journal, did not provide the correct title of Adolf Fick's dissertation, approved by the University at Marburg, Germany, in 1851, and Wade also wrongly attributed now famous illusion figures, meant to illustrate the so-called horizontal-vertical illusion (the +, the L, and the inverted T), to this author. After having corrected these errors, I briefly relate Fick’s work to modern work in the field and note that it has been widely neglected.

La presència de dones pioneres europees en el camp psicològic

2019

espanolEn este trabajo se revisa la participacion de mujeres pioneras europeas en el campo psicologico, con el objetivo de analizar su aportacion al desarrollo de la disciplina, a lo largo del siglo xx y principios del xxi. Para ello, de las fuentes de la bibliografia que ofrece Benjamin, en 1980, se han seleccionado siete mujeres nacidas en Europa, en el siglo xix. Y a partir de una metodologia bibliometrica se ha examinado la informacion del Social Sciences Citation Index, –ssci–, desde 1900 hasta 2016. Los resultados indican que las pioneras mujeres europeas, psicoanalistas, psiquiatras y psicologas, han obtenido un alto numero de citas a lo largo del tiempo. Los temas en que sus obras a…

Contributions to the History of Psychology: LXI. Language of Publications Referred to in Four American Journals, 1887–1945: A Synthesis

1989

The language dimension of the interaction with world psychology, reflected in the contributions to the American Journal of Psychology, Psychological Review, Psychological Bulletin, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology, was one of the topics examined in a series of doctoral dissertations written in the 1980s at the University of Valencia under the direction of Prof. Helio Carpintero. The studies yielded information on well over 100,000 references. The present synthesis documents the trends toward a relative decrease in references to works written in French and German, and an increase in references to publications written in English. In the 20th century the percentage of references to …

Psychology in Latvia

2012

History of psychology in Latvia can be divided into three stages: (1) origin and early development during the period of independence between the two World Wars; (2) survival under rather difficult conditions under the Soviet rule; and (3) rapid growth after the reestablishment of independence in 1991. After a brief review of the first two stages, this survey concentrates on recent and current trends in Latvian psychology. Research is reviewed on: interethnic relations, social representations; attachment styles in infancy and childhood and their reverberations in adulthood; early detection and intervention of depression in schoolchildren and university students; validation of major intellig…

The Self-Presentation of a Discipline: History of Psychology in the United States between Pedagogy and Scholarship

1983

Criticism of scholarship in the history of psychology from historians and philosophers of science is certainly not new. In 1966, for example, Robert M. Young characterized the field as “an avocation with very uneven standards”, limited primarily to biographies of great psychologists, extended reviews of the literature and the uncritical chronicling of the rise of scientific psychology, based on a narrowly preconceived model of scientific development (1). Recent criticism has renewed all of these charges, particularly the last. Walter Weimer, a psychologist interested in the philosophy of science, accuses the writers of historical textbooks of ‘crypto-justificationism’, of describing the ‘ev…

Psicologia e filosofia in Italia nell'età del positivismo

2009

Vengono presi in esame il panorama culturale italiano tra Otto e Novecento e i maggiori autori che hanno contribuito alla nascita della psicologia contemporanea e alla sua emancipazione dalla filosofia

A Phenomenological Framework for Neuroscience?

2006

I try to sketch what a phenomenological constraint for the Neuroscience would be consisting of. I maintain that an adequate phenomenology is a condition for the Neurosciences to account for our every-day experience of the world in its broadest sense. As a guideline for it, I assume the phenomenological description of our actual experience of things, others, meanings and values provided by the Gestaltpsychology tradition. In order to prove its usefulness, I discuss the explanatory gap Cognitive Sciences are actually facing to. Then I propose some arguments drawn by Köhler's dynamical theory, to show what a solution of the explanatory gap might look like, and how the phenomenological and neur…