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Forgotten Ideas, Neglected Pioneers : Richard Semon and the Story of Memory.
Richard Semon was a German evolutionary biologist who wrote, during the first decade of the twentieth century, two fascinating analyses of the workings of human memory which were ahead of their time. Although these have been virtually unknown to modern researchers, Semon's work has been redisco...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Forgotten Ideas, Neglected Pioneers: Richard Semon and the Story of Memory; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Foreword; About the Author; 1 Introduction; Story and Characters; Issues: History and Psychology of Science; I: The Story; 2 Roots of the Drama; Beginnings; 3 Haeckel, Monism, and the Dilemma of the German Jew; The Oracle of Jena; The Conversion: Causes and Contexts; 4 Journey and Exile; In Search of Ceratodus; Semon in Australia: Some Psychological Perspectives; 1897; 5 Battles Won and Lost; The Initial Struggles: 1904-1908; Germany, England, and the Threat of War
- The Hermits Lament: 1909-19146 Prisoners in their Cells; Consequences of the Great War; Felix and the War; Munich, 1918: Journey's End; Richard Semon: Some Final Perspectives; II. The Issues; 7 Organic Memory, Lamarckian Heresy, and Semon's Mneme; Neo-Lamarckism and the Challenge of Weismann; Heredity as Memory: Excavations of a Scientific Atlantis; Relationships Between Memory and Heredity; The Mneme; The Reception of Die Mneme: Seeds of Scientific Isolation; 8 Retrieval: The Mnemonic Missing Link; Memory Research in the Era of Ebbinghaus and Müller: Critical Concerns of an Emerging Science
- Where is Retrieval?Association and the Problem of Retrieval; Voices in the Wilderness; 9 Semon's Theory and the Modern Psychology of Memory; Preliminaries: The Engram; Conditions, Functions, and Processes of Retrieval; Semon's Theory and Four Problems of Memory; 10 Revolutionaires, Cranks, and the Research Community: Perspectives on Unrecognized Scientific Contributions; Theory Evaluation as Signal-Detection: An Heuristic Analogy; Null Effect: Semon's Influence on Memory Research; The Scientific Crank and Correct Rejections; The March of the Invisible Men: Profiles in Scientific Neglect
- The Revolutionary and the Crank: Some Final Perspectives11 The Psychology of the Isolated Scientist; Isolation, Recognition, and Intellectual Passions; The Anchorite Gallery: Struggles of the Isolated Scientist; The Psychology of the Isolated Scientist: Some Final Perspectives; Epilogue: Past, Present, and Future in Psychology; Appendix: Richard Semon's Theory of Memory; References; Author Index; Subject Index