| Title |
F. Hegelmaier: On memory for the length of a line
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Psychological Research, December 1992
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| DOI | 10.1007/bf01358261 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Donald Laming, Janet Laming |
| Abstract |
A very early student project undertaken by Friedrich Hegelmaier (1833-1906), published in German in 1852, is republished in English translation. Slight though the experimental work is, it nevertheless occupies a unique place in the history of experimental psychology. It is the source whence Fechner had the method of constant stimuli, a method that continued in use as the preferred psychophysical method, substantially in the form described here, for more than a century. The experiment is arguably the first experiment in the modern sense of a systematic preplanned body of observations and has the glaring faults that one would expect in a very first experiment. Finally, Hegelmaier suggests the use of two simultaneous tasks as a means to investigate human performance, a full hundred years before that idea was realized in practice. If only he had continued in experimental psychology! |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Israel | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 29 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 25% |
| Researcher | 5 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 16% |
| Professor | 3 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 4 | 13% |
| Unknown | 5 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 10 | 31% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 19% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 9% |
| Engineering | 3 | 9% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 3 | 9% |
| Unknown | 5 | 16% |
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