Some observations on the development of the colour sense / by Charles S. Myers.
- Charles Samuel Myers
- Date:
- 1908
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Some observations on the development of the colour sense / by Charles S. Myers. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[From THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. II. Pt. 4, October, 1908.] [All Rights reserved.] | THE CHARLES MYERS LIBRARY NATIONAL INSTITUTE St INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY 14, WEIBECK STREET, LONDON, W 1. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLOUR SENSE. By CHARLES S. MYERS. 1. A new Method of Experiment. 2. A Method of Grasp and Reward. 3. Experimental Data. 4. Advantages of Second Method. 5. Legitimate Conclusions from these experiments. 6. Illegitimate Conclusions. 7. Conceptions of the Development of the Colour Sense. 8. The Significance of Observations on the Colour Sense of Primitive Peoples. 9. General Conclusions. I propose to give an account of some observations made by me during the years 1905—G on my elder child. They are less numerous and were, for the most part, made somewhat later in the child’s life than those recorded by McDougall in the present number of this Journal. Indeed, were it not for the appearance of his very suggestive paper, I should not have thought it worth while to publish them as they now stand. They are of interest, however, inasmuch as they independently confirm several of McDougall’s conclusions, and enable me to describe a method which is in some respects, I venture to think, preferable to the method employed by Marsden and him. Moreover, finding that I differ widely from these and from other observers as to the justifiability of deducing from their data the order of development of colour sensations in infants, I take this opportunity of expressing my views on this subject in particular, and on the development of colour vision in general. 1. I prepared for my experiments a number of wooden cubes (‘bricks’) each measuring 33 x 20 x 15 millimetres, and I painted each of them uniformly in a different shade of grey or colour. I placed a pair of these bricks before the infant upon a table covered with a piece of black velvet; the table was placed near a window, and the infant sat comfortably before the table on her mother’s lap with her](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30612548_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
