Cited by T. Quick, 'Disciplining Physiological Psychology: Cinematographs as Epistemic Devices, 1897-1922', Science in Context 30 (4), pp. 423-474.
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'It was no coincidence that Bergson’s British supporter McDougall had arrived at his conclusions following a close engagement with German physiological psychological research practices was no coincidence. By the middle decades of the nineteenth century, the combined influence of Kant and Naturphilosophie on German scholarship had encouraged an intimate relation to emerge there between the study of the senses through the generation of illusion, and debates surrounding physical and vital explanations of physiological function (Schickore 2006, esp. 385-391; Friedman and Nordmann 2006; Leary 1982).' (452)

 

'In acquiring Münsterberg's psychological laboratory, Sully had thereby helped bring a set of research questions to Britain that had hitherto generally only appeared in the country in terms of broader enquiries concerning the relation of matter to spirit (for example in the study of Mesmerism, or, as frequently, optics) (Hayward 2007, 40-56; Schickore 2006, 396-401).' (453)

 

'eighteenth- and especially nineteenth-century natural philosophers had come to concern themselves with a wide range of phenomena that occurred over very short intervals of time. The nature of sparks, bubbles, and vibrations (to give three amongst many possible examples) were interrogated using tools designed for the visual “fixing” of transient phenomena (Ramalingam 2015; Canales 2009, chap. 5; Schaffer 2004, esp. 170–177). Within the German context especially, a set of physiological problems associated with these phenomena had emerged that considered the processes by which stimulation of eyes actually resulted in visual experience (Schickore 2006, 123–126).' (454)

 

'In 1885, Marey's associate Adolph-Moïse Bloch adapted a version of the intermittently-obscured lamps that William Henry Fox Talbot and Simon von Stampfer had developed during the 1830s to physiological investigation. Where Talbot sought to measure light intensity itself, Bloch sought to establish a law regarding the rates at which individual sensation-flashes produced a continuous light-sensation under different conditions (Bloch 1885, 493-495; Schickore 2006, 254-255). Such studies prompted a range of physiological investigations into Stampfer's "stroboscopic" effects during the 1890s (e.g. Charpentier 1890; Schenck 1896; Marbe 1898).' (454)