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Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System

A Psychophysical and Physiological Analysis

Edited by George A. Gescheider, John H. Wright, Ronald T. Verrillo

Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System addresses the fundamental question of whether sensory channels, similar to those known to operate in vision and audition,…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-1-84169-896-0 (Psychology Press)

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Unified Social Cognition

By Norman Anderson

This eagerly awaited volume presents Anderson's cumulative progress in unified social psychology. The research is grounded in the three fundamental laws of information integration theory.…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-1-84169-883-0 (Psychology Press)

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Introduction to the Theories of Measurement and Meaningfulness and the Use of Symmetry in Science

By Louis Narens

This book is designed to be an introduction to the theories of measurement and meaningfulness, and not a comprehensive study of those topics. A major…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-6202-7 (Psychology Press)

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Measurement and Representation of Sensations

Edited by Hans Colonius, Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov

Measurement and Representation of Sensations offers a glimpse into the most sophisticated current mathematical approaches to psychophysical problems. In this book, editors Hans Colonius and…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-5353-7 (Psychology Press)

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Psychophysics Beyond Sensation

Laws and Invariants of Human Cognition

Edited by Christian Kaernbach, Erich Schr”ger, Hermann Mller, Hermann Muller, Erich Schroger

This volume presents a series of studies that expand laws, invariants, and principles of psychophysics beyond its classical domain of sensation. This book's goal is…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-4250-0 (Psychology Press)

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Theories of Meaningfulness

By Louis Narens

Written by one of the masters of the foundation of measurement, Louis Narens' new book thoroughly examines the basis for the measurement-theoretic concept of meaningfulness…

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2001 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-4045-2 (Psychology Press)

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Empirical Direction in Design and Analysis

By Norman H. Anderson

The goal of Norman H. Anderson's new book is to help students develop skills of scientific inference. To accomplish this he organized the book around…

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2001 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-3978-4 (Psychology Press)

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Computational, Geometric, and Process Perspectives on Facial Cognition

Contexts and Challenges

Edited by Michael J. Wenger, James T. Townsend

Within the last three decades, interest in the psychological experience of human faces has drawn together cognitive science researchers from diverse backgrounds. Computer scientists talk…

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2001 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-3234-1 (Psychology Press)

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Utility of Gains and Losses

Measurement-Theoretical and Experimental Approaches

By R. Duncan Luce

This new monograph presents Dr. Luce's current understanding of the behavioral properties people exhibit (or should exhibit) when they make selections among alternatives and how…

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-3460-4 (Psychology Press)

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The War Between Mentalism and Behaviorism

On the Accessibility of Mental Processes

By William R. Uttal

This book considers one of the most fundamental, but only infrequently considered, issues in psychology--Are mental processes accessible by means of verbal reports and/or experimental…

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-3361-4 (Psychology Press)

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