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Space perception

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  • An artist measures a model of the human body from a distance with one eye shut; representing the faculty of perception in extended space in phrenological classification. Steel engraving by J-I-L. Desjardins, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
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    The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the parts associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with the faculties of external perception and its memory. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

    | Date: 1901 | Reference: 28018i
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    Über den psychologischen Ursprung der Raumvorstellung / von Carl Stumpf.

    Stumpf, Carl, 1848-1936. | Date: 1873
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    An artist measures a model of the human body from a distance with one eye shut; representing the faculty of perception in extended space in phrenological classification. Steel engraving by J-I-L. Desjardins, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

    Bruyères, Hippolyte. | Date: [1847] | Reference: 27622i
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    An introductory study of voluminal form perception / by Martin Johansen ; [translated from the Danish by E.R. Tottey].

    Johansen, Martin. | Date: [1954?]
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    Making space : how the brain knows where things are / Jennifer M. Groh.

    Groh, Jennifer M. | Date: [2014]
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