Psychophysiological Science: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Classic Questions About the Mind

Abstract

Psychophysiology is an old idea but a new science. It is a likely assumption that ever since man began to experience himself as an object of his own awareness he has had some intuitive notion that bodily changes were, in some measure, related to his moods, his sentiments, his frustrations, his elations. How to relate these dual aspects of human functioning has been a concern of philosopher-scientists throughout the course of intellectual history. (Greenfield & Sternbach, 1972, p. v) The first Handbook of Psychophysiology was published more than three decades ago (Greenfield & Sternbach, 1972). Coverage in that Handbook emphasized the periph-eral nervous system, an emphasis that many still identify with the term psychophysiology in accord with the his-tory of psychophysiology. As is the case for physiologi-cal and other scientific fields, however, psychophysiology

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