1st Edition
Psychophysics Introduction to Its Perceptual, Neural and Social Prospects
Edited By S.S. Stevens
Copyright 1986
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
343 Pages
by
Routledge
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Psychophysics is a lively account by one of experimental psychology's seminal figures of his lifelong scientific quest for general laws governing human behavior. It is a landmark work that captures the fundamental themes of Stevens's experimental research and his vision of what psycho-physics and psychology are and can be. The context of this modern classic is detailed by Lawrence Marks's... Read more
1: The Psychophysical Law; 2: Sensation and Measurement; 3: Intramodal Matching; 4: Cross-Modality Matching; 5: Partition Scales and Paradoxes; 6: Thresholds and the Neural Quantum; 7: Neural Correlates; 8: Scaling the Social Consensus; 9: Hazards and Remedies
Biography
S.S. Stevens
