The time interval and spatial separation between the two sparks could be controlled , and Exner found that two slightly separated sparks , one appearing more than 50 ms after the other , appeared as a single light moving from one ...
At a Senate hearing where Watson was also a witness, Venter made it known that the NIH was seeking patents on the brain genes he had found. Seeking to play down the significance of the patenting issue, Watson declared that it would be ...
Figure 3.7 Behaviourist John Broadus Watson (1878–1958) proposed a radical behaviourism that sought to predict all behaviour in terms of S-R bonds. He is represented in the context of sequences of S-R bonds, produced with the mechanical ...
As the geneticist A.W.F. Edwards wrote, “Most of the information that distinguishes populations is hidden in the correlation structure of the data.” The 15% genetic difference between races, in other words, is not random noise but ...
Three research groups were very active in this initial phase , Ditchburn and Ginsberg at Reading University , and Riggs and Ratliff at Brown University , as was Barlow at Cambridge . Ratliff and Riggs ( 1950 ) employed an optical lever ...
In the first account of a flood of new research findings, an acclaimed New York Times science reporter tells the dramatic story of the lost ages of human history.
An Introduction Nicholas Wade, Michael Swanston, Professor of Visual Psychology Nicholas J Wade. Neurophysiological interpretations of visual phenomena Very little is known about the neurophysiology of the human visual system .
A fascinating exploration into genomics and the sequencing of the human genome details how this science will help to discover the genetic causes of disease, allow for individualized diagnostics, and open the door for innovative treatments ...
The text presents a brief synopsis of the person portrayed, that person's ideas, and the source of both the portrait and the motif.
An examination of the physiological and psychological predeterminants and consequences of nuclear war draws on the work of an international, interdisciplinary group of scientists which met in Washington in September 1985
Explains how genetic materials are manipulated in laboratories and examines the scientific, political, social and moral implications of these techniques.
This illustrated survey covers the observational era of vision, beginning with the Greek philosophers and ending with Wheatstone's description of the stereoscope at the end of the 1830s (after which vision became an experimental science).
This collection of perceptual portraits of more than 100 thinkers who have fashioned our understanding of mind and behaviour provides an alternative view of the history of psychology.
“Meaty, well-written.” —Kirkus Reviews “Timely and informative.” —The New York Times Book Review “By far the best book I have ever read on humanity’s deep history.” —E.
Drawing on the work of scientists who have made crucial—and startling—breakthroughs in establishing the reality of recent human evolution, a longtime journalist covering genetic advances for The New York Times examines the genetic basis ...
Noted science writer Nicholas Wade offers for the first time a convincing case based on a broad range of scientific evidence for the evolutionary basis of religion.
In this book a leading researcher and artist explores how we see pictures and how they can communicate messages to us, both directly and indirectly by making allusions to objects in space or to stored images in our minds.
We delight in using our eyes, particularly when puzzling over pictures. Art and illusionists is a celebration of pictures and the multiple modes of manipulating them to produce illusory worlds on flat surfaces.
In this essay, science writer Nicholas Wade explores the two scenarios and argues that, on present evidence, lab escape is the more likely explanation.
Hampstead Past: A Visual History of Hampstead