Scientific Study of Magic: Binet’s Pioneering Approach Based on Observations and Chronophotography

Thomas, Cyril; Didierjean, André; Nicolas, Serge

doi:10.5406/amerjpsyc.129.3.0313

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“…By the mid 1890s, the director of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology at the Sorbonne, and Charcot's former student, Alfred Binet, also began experimenting with Marey's ‘chronophotography’. He used it to identify the limits of human vision to understand human psychological lapses or failures, arguing that it was superior to human vision, and demonstrating the versatility of the technique in supporting psychological investigations ( Thomas, Didierjean, and Nicolas, 2016 ).…”

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The origins of film, psychology and the neurosciences

Evans

2024

History of the Human Sciences

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The invention of film technologies in France at the end of the 19th century inspired neurologists and associated professionals to engage with this new medium to demonstrate their theories of the brain, the nervous system, and the mind. Beginning with the origins of cinema in Paris, this article explores how film technologies were used at La Salpêtrière, and beyond, to visualise internal mental processes, and to support the burgeoning sciences of the mind. This film-making became increasingly sophisticated by the late 1910s and early 1920s, creating innovative ways to present psychological experiences on film. This article focuses on films produced by Albert Londe, Vincenzo Neri, Gheorghe Marinescu, and Jean Comandon. It argues that these polymaths created new filming techniques that built complexity into the visual articulation of psychological concepts. Their films were essential to shaping early debates in neurology, psychology, and the observational sciences during this critical period in the establishment of the modern sciences of the self.

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The origins of film, psychology and the neurosciences

Evans

2024

History of the Human Sciences

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“…Video-games define another field which uses various cues to indicate points of interest through their HUDs [62]. In sports and early bio-mechanical studies, the use of chronophotography (or stroboscopic image) was omnipresent to describe body motions [53,63]. Other research fields such as mechanics and electromagnetism also rely on sketches to describe the motion of metal pieces or electrons [60].…”

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Studying the Visual Representation of Microgestures

Lambert,

Chaffangeon Caillet,

Goguey

et al. 2023

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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The representations of microgestures are essentials for researchers presenting their results through academic papers and system designers proposing tutorials to novice users. However, those representations remain disparate and inconsistent. As a first attempt to investigate how to best graphically represent microgestures, we created 21 designs, each depicting static and dynamic versions of 4 commonly used microgestures (tap, swipe, flex and hold). We first studied these designs in a quantitative online experiment with 45 participants. We then conducted a qualitative laboratory experiment in Augmented Reality with 16 participants. Based on the results, we provide design guidelines on which elements of a microgesture should be represented and how. In particular, it is recommended to represent the actuator and the trajectory of a microgesture. Also, although preferred by users, dynamic representations are not considered better than their static counterparts for depicting a microgesture and do not necessarily result in a better user recognition.

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The Importance of Instrument Makers for the Development of Experimental Psychology: The Case of Alfred Binet at the Sorbonne Laboratory

Nicolas¹

2016

J. Hist. Behav. Sci.

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The importance of instrument firms in the development of psychology, and science in general, should not be underestimated since it would not have been possible for various leading psychologists at the turn of the twentieth century to conduct certain experiments without the assistance of instrument makers, as is often the case today. To illustrate the historical perspective introduced here, the example of Alfred Binet is taken, as he is an interesting case of a psychologist working in close collaboration with various French instrument designers of the time. The objective of this article is twofold: (1) to show the considerable activity carried out by early psychologists to finalize new laboratory instruments in order to develop their research projects; (2) to reassess the work of a major figure in French psychology through his activity as a designer of precision instruments. The development of these new instruments would certainly have been difficult without the presence in Paris of numerous precision instrument manufacturers such as Charles Verdin, Otto Lund, Henri Collin, and Lucien Korsten, on whom Binet successively called in order to develop his projects in the field of experimental psychology.

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Scientific Study of Magic: Binet’s Pioneering Approach Based on Observations and Chronophotography

Cited by 12 publications

References 39 publications

The origins of film, psychology and the neurosciences

The origins of film, psychology and the neurosciences

Studying the Visual Representation of Microgestures

The Importance of Instrument Makers for the Development of Experimental Psychology: The Case of Alfred Binet at the Sorbonne Laboratory

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