Riley, I. W. (1905). Review of La Mimica del Pensiero. [Review of the book La Mimica del Pensiero. S. de Sanctis]. Psychological Bulletin, 2(1), 27-29.
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Reviews the book, La Mimica del Pensiero by Sante de Sanctis (1904). This interesting little treatise is by the author of an important works on dreams. He says that hitherto experimental psychology has investigated conative attention, i. e., attention artificially provoked and maintained; here is an attempt to measure natural attention, i. e., the capacity of a subject to attend to the ordinary happenings of life. In the passage from a state of indifference to that of attention, as marked by changes in the sense organs, the vegetative and motor functions, use has been made of the plethysmograph, the cardiograph, etc., while but little has been done to record the imitative movements. Some have claimed that the motor activities accompanying attention constitute the attention itself; others deny that they are equivalent. The physiologists incline to a mere analysis of the phenomena of mimicry, the psychologists to a search for the bio-physiological laws. This study confines itself to intellectual mimicry by a comparative study of photographs and kinetoscopic views. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)