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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'Since Sherrington and his physiological colleagues’ opposition to James’s conception of emotion played an important part in the more general retreat from scientific respectability of views complimentary to Bergson’s, it is necessary to examine it before moving on to consider the significance of Sherrington’s cinematograph studies themselves. As Otniel Dror (1999b; 2011) has shown, the relative prominence of different representational techniques in studies of emotion had direct relevance for the sorts of claims that they carried.'

 

'As Dror highights, studies such as Bergson and James’s drew on long-established investigative practices that ‘framed observation around the embodied-experiential reactions of observers’ (Dror 2011, 327).  In contrast, the strand of physiological psychology to which Sherrington sought to contribute approached emotion as something that could be made visible via the application of tools to bodies.'

 

'Ideally singular spatial points were taken in kymographic studies as indexes of the broader physiological functioning of the body. Thus Claude Bernard identified the heartbeat as the index of bodily emotional expression (Dror 2011, 337).'