Abstract
THIS volume is written by a psychologist of repute, who is r lecturer on psychology in the University of Glasgow. It is one of the most important presentations of the sense of hearing since the time of Helmholtz. It is true that Dr. Watt discusses hearing more from the psychological than from the physiological point of view; he is less interested in the physiological mechanism than in the mental experiences associated with hearing. Still, the author is familiar with physiological theories regarding hearing and the cochlea. In the eighth chapter he gives an excellent critical account of all the physiological theories from Helmlioltz onwards, and discards them more or less in favour of a theory of his own, which he thinks reconciles psychological and physiological data better than any other.
The Psychology of Sound.
By Dr. H. J. Watt. Pp. vii + 241. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1917.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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M., J. The Psychology of Sound . Nature 99, 462 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099462a0
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