Nicholas J. Wade

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Nicholas James Wade is a British cognitive psychologist .

Life

Nicholas J. Wade is Professor Emeritus at the University of Dundee . He researches the human perception of space and movement, he also works on visual art. For the Oxford handbook of eye movements (2011) he and W. Tatler wrote the historical overview of the history of visual perception research . He took care of the translation and publication of historical works on perceptual psychology, such as Johann Joseph Oppel's work on optical illusion , works by Édouard Claparède , Galileo Galilei , Helmholtz , Johannes Müller's Handbuch der Physiologie , Domenico Ragona-Scinà , Silvanus Phillips Thompson , Marius Tscherning , William Charles Wells , Thomas Young, and others.

The magazine The Psychologist of the British Psychological Society brought in 2018 his article The age of illusions as lead story .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Marco Piccolino: Galileo's Visions: Piercing the spheres of the heavens by eye and mind . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 ISBN 9780199554355
  • with Benjamin W. Tatler: Origins and applications of eye movement research . In: S. Liversedge, I. Gilchrist, S. Everling (eds.): The Oxford handbook of eye movements . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 17-43
  • Circles: Science, Sense and Symbol . Dundee: Dundee University Press, 2007 ISBN 978-1-84586-019-6
  • with Marco Piccolino: Insegne Ambiguë. Percorsi Obliqui tra Storia, Scienza e Arte, da Galileo a Magritte . Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2007 ISBN 978-88-467-1736-8
  • with Benjamin W. Tatler: The Moving Tablet of the Eye: The Origins of Modern Eye Movement Research . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-19-856616-6
  • Perception and Illusion. Historical Perspectives . New York: Springer, 2005
  • (Ed.): Müller's Elements of Physiology . 4 volumes Bristol: Thoemmes, 2003
  • Destined for Distinguished Oblivion: The Scientific Vision of William Charles Wells (1757-1817) . New York: Kluwer / Plenum, 2003
  • (Ed.): Thomas Young's Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1807) . Bristol: Thoemmes, 2002
  • with J. Brozek: Purkinje's Vision. The Dawning of Neuroscience . Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001
  • (Ed.): The Emergence of Neuroscience in the Nineteenth Century . 8 volumes. London: Routledge, 2000
  • (Ed.): Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics . 3 volumes. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2000
  • A Natural History of Vision . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998
  • Psychologists in Word and Image . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995
  • with M. Swanston: Visual Perception: An Introduction . London: Routledge, 1991. Second edition 2001
  • Visual Allusions: Pictures of Perception . London: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990
  • (Eds.): Brewster and Wheatstone on Vision . London: Academic Press, 1983
  • The Art and Science of Visual Illusions . London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The age of illusions , in: The Psychologist, February 2018, pp. 54–58
personal data
SURNAME Wade, Nicholas J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wade, Nicholas James (full name); Wade, Nick; Wade, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century