"That imperfect instrument": Galton's whistle, Bierce's damned thing, and the phenomenon of superior nonhuman sensory range.

IF 1.1 4区 心理学 Q1 HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Gregory Burton
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Abstract

When the Galton whistle was introduced in the 1870s, it was the first demonstration many had encountered of the phenomenon that nonhumans sometimes exceed humans in sensory range, for example perceiving ultraviolet light and ultrasonic signals. While some empirical research had explored this possibility beforehand, this area of perceptual research progressed slowly. A horror short story by Ambrose Bierce in 1893, "The Damned Thing," used the concept of superior nonhuman sensory range as a twist ending, seemingly anticipating scientific discoveries to come or at least understanding the implications of the early findings well in advance of the field. This article analyzes Bierce's possible sources, with Bierce representing the general educated nonscientist and providing insights into the spread of this concept into public and scientific awareness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

“那个不完美的乐器”:高尔顿的哨子,比尔斯的该死的东西,以及超越人类感官范围的现象。
当高尔顿哨子在19世纪70年代被引入时,这是许多人第一次遇到非人类有时在感官范围上超过人类的现象,例如感知紫外线和超声波信号。虽然一些实证研究已经事先探索了这种可能性,但这一领域的知觉研究进展缓慢。安布罗斯·比尔斯(Ambrose Bierce)在1893年写了一篇恐怖短篇小说《该死的东西》(The该死的东西),用超越人类感官范围的概念作为一个扭曲的结局,似乎预测了科学发现的到来,或者至少在这个领域之前就理解了早期发现的含义。本文分析了Bierce的可能来源,Bierce代表了一般受过教育的非科学家,并提供了这一概念在公众和科学意识中的传播的见解。(PsycInfo数据库记录(c) 2023 APA,版权所有)。
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1.40
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期刊介绍: History of Psychology features refereed articles addressing all aspects of psychology"s past and of its interrelationship with the many contexts within which it has emerged and has been practiced. It also publishes scholarly work in closely related areas, such as historical psychology (the history of consciousness and behavior), psychohistory, theory in psychology as it pertains to history, historiography, biography and autobiography, and the teaching of the history of psychology.
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