French psychologist Alfred Binet (1859-1911) took a different tack than most psychologists of his day: he was interested in the workings of the normal mind rather than the pathology of mental illness.

M. BINET'S volume originally appeared in the “Bibliothèque Scientifique Internationale,” and was reviewed in NATURE in July 1892 (vol. xlvi. p. 219). The subject with which it deals is beset with ...

IN what is in ordinary parlance called somnambulism, or sleep-walking, the patient rises in the night, performs a number of seemingly intelligent actions directed to some special end, answers ...