The American Journal of Psychology (Volume 2)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...way on the relation of the reaction-time to the muscular character of the response, on the relation of the concept to the simple sensations upon which it rests, snd on organic memory in judgments of rhythm and time. The instructor in Anthropology has expended most of his time for research in the working up of data previously collected. Besides this original work the laboratories in each department (and especially in the last) have been used for practical work of a demonstratioual character by students who propose to take up research work at a later period or whose lines of immediate interest were in other but related branches. It is the desire of the University to provide all necessarj' facilities for research, and the laboratories have been furnished with that in view. The Neurological laboratory consists of two rooms, one large and one small, supplied with the reagents, apparatus and conveniences for histological and neurological work. In the way of illustrative material the laboratory has. Kh'-and Azxux's models of the brain in man and Ziegler's of the brain in lower animals, and a set of serial sections through the human brain is now in the making. The psychological laboratory (one large and two small rooms) is especially strong in apparatus for time measurements and psychological optics, having already or in construction most of the standard instruments of Wundt, besides many others of Donders, Snellen, Hering, Holmgren, Bowditch, et al. For the study of other chapters of Experimental Psychology a considerable collection of apparatus has been made and will be added to from time to time. The anthropological laboratory (two rooms) has all the essential instruments for anthropometry and craniometry. The library collection of books on...