On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:44:46 -0700, Gary Klatsky wrote: > >Does anyone know where I can get a picture of the apparatus >that Donder's used in his subtractive methods studies?
There is a website dedicated to Donders which contains some small images of his equipment at Radboud University: http://www.ru.nl/fcdonders/general/biography_fc_donders/ There are links there to the Museum of Reaction Time Research at Montclair Univeristy; see: http://www.chss.montclair.edu/psychology/museum/mrt.html And the Barnard College Psych Dept also has an overview of RT equipment and research; see http://www.barnard.edu/psych/b_museum.html It should be noted that Donder's original papers were translated and reprinted in the 1969 (volume 30) of Acta Psychologica in a special issue devoted to his research (PsycInfo has these listed, so if you search on Donders as Author you should locate them quickly).. Acta Psychologica is available electronicly from "Science Direct" (previously Elsevier?) along with a preface by the editor of the special issue W.G. Koster. The articles in this special issue was packaged into the book "Attention and Performance II (2)" which Koster edited. The online version of Donder's article on Science Direct make reference to figures of the instruments that Donders used but either (1) whoever scanned in the issue didn't scan the figures/pictures (so check the paper version of either the journal or the volume) or (2) the figures were not included in the publication (which doesn't make any sense since there are a few "see figure 2" type comments -- perhapss these were comments in the original Dutch publication and the original images weren't carried over). So, it's my feeling that if there a photos either in the Acta Psychologica journal or the Koster volume, they probably would be the best images to use. Take care, -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
