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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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British pioneers of research into human haptic perception

Jonathan Cole

pp. 41-53

Abstract

The history of early research on haptics in the United Kingdom is, to a large extent, the history of several great men, reflecting in part the relative small numbers engaged in research. There was a golden age for British neurology and neurophysiology at the turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, before and during the First World War. After this the focus moved to a smaller scale with the work of Adrian and Matthews; for instance, being largely on the mechanism of the nervous impulse and on biophysics rather than on the functioning of larger systems. Such were the successes of such an approach, with the accruing of Nobel Prizes for Adrian and Sherrington, Huxley and Hodgkin, and Katz, that whole system approaches only became in vogue once more within the UK in the latter decades of the last century.

Publication details

Published in:

Grunwald Martin (2008) Human haptic perception: basics and applications. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 41-53

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7643-7612-3_3

Full citation:

Cole Jonathan (2008) „British pioneers of research into human haptic perception“, In: M. Grunwald (ed.), Human haptic perception, Dordrecht, Springer, 41–53.