01796nam a2200277Ia 4500 TVU_12833 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0198566166 9780198566168 eng 612.84609 N302 Wade, Nicholas J. The The origins of modern eye movement research Nicholas J. Wade, Benjamin W. Tatler Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2005 xiii, 312 p. ill. 25 cm This book is unique in tracing the history of eye movement research. It shows how great strides were made in this area before modern recording devices were available, especially in the measurement of nystagmus. When photographic techniques were adapted to measure discontinuous eye movements, from about 1900, many of the issues that are now basic to modern research were then investigated. One of the earliest cognitive tasks examined was reading, and it remains in the vanguard of contemporary research. Modern researchers in this field will be astonished at the subtleties of these early experimental studies and the ingenuity of interpretations that were advanced one and even two centuries ago. Though physicians often carried out the original eye movement research, later on it was pursued by psychologists - it is within contemporary neuroscience that we find these two strands reunited. Anyone interested in the origins of psychology and neuroscience will find much to stimulate and surprise them in this valuable new work Eye; Eye Movements; Psychology; History; History Nicholas J. Wade; Benjamin W. Tatler Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh