Edmund Burke Delabarre was a researcher and professor of psychology

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 at Brown University

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. He graduated from Amherst College

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 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

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, because of his interpretation of the inscriptions present on the surface of Dighton Rock

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, a boulder on the shore of the Taunton River

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, south-eastern Massachusetts

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, attributing the carvings to Miguel Corte-Real

Miguel Corte-Real

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, a Portuguese

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 navigator who left Lisbon

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 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

Coat of arms of Portugal

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, the name of Miguel Corte-Real, and the date 1511. In 1899, Delabarre was instrumental in formation of the University Club in Providence

Works

• 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
• Recent History of Dighton Rock Wilson and Son, Cambridge, MA. 1919. pdf

External links

• Biography of Edmund Delabarre in Encyclopedia Brunoniana of Brown University.
• Short biography, bibliography, and links on digitized sources in the Virtual Laboratory
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  *Amherst College Biographical Record: Class of 1886