The Mutual Relations of Stimuli in the Frog _Rana Clamata_ Daudin:
Robert M. Yerkes 545
The Temporal Relations of Neural Processes: Robert M. Yerkes 575
The Mental Life of the Domestic Pigeon: John E. Rouse 581
Reactions of the Crayfish: J. Carleton Bell 615
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EMERSON HALL
[Illustration: HARVARD PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY]
EMERSON HALL
BY HUGO MÜNSTERBERG
I. EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY IN HARVARD
On the 27th of December, 1905, Harvard University opened its new house
of philosophy, Emerson Hall. The presence of the American Philosophical
and Psychological Associations gave national significance to the
completion of this building.
The psychologist will find quarters in all parts of Emerson Hall. The
general courses in psychology will be held on the first floor in the
large lecture-room, which has nearly four hundred seats; and close by
are the psychological seminary-room and smaller lecture-rooms for the
advanced psychological courses. On the second floor the psychologist
finds his special library as a wing of the large library hall. But
the exclusive domain of the psychologist is the third floor,--a
psychological laboratory with twenty-five rooms. A large attic hall for
laboratory purposes on the fourth floor completes the psychologist's
allotment.
The work to be reported in future in the Harvard Psychological Studies
will be work done in this new building, and while the researches
reported in the following pages were completed in the smaller quarters
of the old laboratory, it seems natural that this volume, which appears
at this new epoch of our work, should give an account both of our
psychological past and of the development and purpose of Emerson Hall.
The Harvard Psychological Laboratory was founded in 1891 by Professor
William James, who had introduced some experimental features into his
psychological lecture courses for some time before the formal opening
of a regular workshop. Professor James started with two large rooms
on the second floor of Dane Hall, and secured an excellent equipment,
especially for the study of the psychology of the senses. He was
assisted by Dr. Herbert Nichols, and at once gathered a number of
graduate students for research.
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