Scientific technology and psychobiological theory: The affordance of insight

✍ Scribed by Dr. Robert Lickliter

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 287 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0012-1630
• DOI: 10.1002/dev.420250808

✦ Synopsis

As most practicing scientists appreciate, techniques play a key role in everything from Nobel-class discoveries to routine measurements carried out by technicians. In this light, it does not seem an overstatement to say that at the end of the 20th century science is enjoying a burst of technical advance unrivaled since the telescope and microscope became available in the 17th century. The remarkable pace of technical innovation in fields ranging from astronomy to molecular biology has afforded investigators the chance to test many previously untestable theories and to discover a wealth of new insights about the nature of the world around us. Indeed, as the noted physiologist and Nobel laureate Edgar Adrian once remarked, "it is the advent of new methods that typically leads to scientific discovery and creativity."

This edited volume by Harry Shair, Gordon Barr, and Myron Hofer embraces Adrian's premise and attempts to explore the nested relationship between methodological and conceptual advances within the field of developmental psychobiology.