Personality factors in sound perception: Historical developments

摘要

The history of research into perception provides convincing proof that it is not only the nature of the objects of the external world under examination that determines the act of perception; over and beyond that it is seen to be dependent upon the condition of the perceiving subject: subjective factors come into play. Consideration of these subjective factors in areas of scientific research led to investigations in various fields such as the unsureness of the eye, personal equation and errors inobservation