Resumen

FERRARI, Fernando José. Virgilio Ducceschi and the first laboratory of experimental psychology in Córdoba, Argentine (1907). Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.2, pp.779-805. ISSN 1808-4281.

The first historians of Latin American psychology, laconically mentioned the presence of Virgilio Ducceschi on the map of the founders of experimental psychology in Latin America. For many years we lost track of this physiologist that founded the first experimental psychology in Cordoba, Argentina. This paper outlines the major writings of this pioneer of experimental psychology and offers the historical framework for understand his work. Virgilio Ducceschi, rises alongside the most relevant figures of Argentina and Latin American psychology, Horacio Piñero, Victor Merchant Cristofredo Jakob, José Ingenieros, among others. Ducceschi's pioneering work in Latin America, and in Córdoba, Argentine, involve the teaching of psychology in the department of experimental psychology created in 1907, as well as the creation of a new apparatus for psychological experiments: the mental registrator (1910). The chair of physiology at the start Ducceschi perform that from 1906, will be created by Dr. De Grandis, who guided the creation of the famous Horacio Piñero's laboratory in Buenos Aires.

Palabras clave : Experimental Psychology; Córdoba; Argentina; Virgilio Ducceschi.

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