| Sumario: | However, as Fretwell points out, the fact that scientists had gone looking for the objective underpinnings of subjective sensation did not mean that psychophysics had vanquished mind, "spirit", or "soul." Indeed, one must quibble with I Sensory Experiments's i frequent description of psychophysics as a science of "everyday experience" - when it was avowedly a science dedicated to extracting, distilling, and breaking down "everyday" sensory experience into elements that would be recognizable to scientists, if not to the person doing the experiencing. The exciting goal of Erica Fretwell's I Sensory Experiments i is to "recove[r] the U.S. cultural life of psychophysics" - and within this act of recovery, "to tell the story of how human difference became a sensory (auditory, gustatory, olfactory, tactile, and visual) experience" (4).
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