Edmund B. Delabarre

Edmund Burke Delabarre (1863 – 1945), was a researcher and professor of psychology at Brown University. He graduated from Amherst College in 1886. Professor Delabarre was a pioneer in the field of shape perception and on the interaction between mental processes and the involuntary movements of the body. He became famous, particularly in Portugal, because of his interpretation of the inscriptions present on the surface of Dighton Rock, a boulder on the shore of the Taunton River, south-eastern Massachusetts, attributing the carvings to Miguel Corte-Real, a Portuguese navigator who left Lisbon in May 1502 on an exploration trip to the western Atlantic, never to return. Delabarre claimed that the stone bears carvings of the Coat of arms of Portugal, the name of Miguel Corte-Real, and the date 1511.

Works

* " [http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/references?id=lit38706 Über Bewegungsempfindungen] ". Freiburg in Baden, Epstein, 1891
* "The force and rapidity of reaction movement" (with R. R. Logan and O. F. Reed). Psychological Review 4: 615-631, 1897
* "Les laboratoires de psychologie en Amérique". L'Année Psychologique 1: 209-255, 1894

External links

* [http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=D0090 Biography of Edmund Delabarre in "Encyclopedia Brunoniana" of Brown University.]
* [http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/references?id=per631 Short biography, bibliography, and links on digitized sources] in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
* [http://www.dightonrock.com/dightonrockandbrownuniversity.htm Dighton Rock and Brown University.]
* [http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/genealogy/acbiorecord/1886.html Amherst College Biographical Record: Class of 1886]