Charles McKinley

Philip McKinley , Betty

N early 150 years ago, Charles Darwin explained how evolution and natural selection transformed the earliest life forms into the rich panoply of life seen today. Scientists estimate this process has been at work on Earth for at least 3.5 billion years. But we remain at the dawn of evolution in another world: the world of computing. There, evolution helps humans solve complex problems in enginee...

Mercantile Bent - McKinley Collection M - 261

Charles Spence

Working at the Crossmodal Research Laboratory in Oxford, Charles Spence tries to apply the latest insights from our growing neuroscience understanding of the rules governing multisensory integration to the design of better products, packages, places, interfaces, and foods, an area that can perhaps best be captured under the title of neuroscience-inspired multisensory design.

Charles Spearman

Few would dispute the claim that Charles Edward Spearman (1863-1945) is Britain’s premier psychologist and indeed one of the enduring figures in the history of behavioral science. Some twenty years ago, I asked a number of psychologists to list the names of whomever they considered to be the five or six most important persons in the history of psychological testing. Among all the nominations, o...

Charles Lyell

Pergamon Press, which has in recent years taken interest in matters neurophysiological, has collected the writings of 56 authors, from many countries, dealing with biochemical, physiological, pharmacological and behavioral aspects of nervous function. Most of the material is a succinct compilation of previously published observations; but some of it, such as the study by Smith, Stacey and Young...