Sensation and Judgment - Complementarity Theory of Psychophysics

List of contents

Contents: Preface. Complementarity Principle. Sensory Aggregate Model. Stevens Functions. Weber Functions. Piéron Functions. Unified Sensory Laws? Memory Psychophysics. Number Preference Model. Judgment Option Model. Ekman Functions. Context and Magnitude Estimation. Context and Category Estimation. Sequence Effects. Absolute Identification. Unified Judgment Principles? Multidimensional Psychophysics. Sensation and Perception. References. Author Index. Subject Index.

About the author

John C. Baird

Summary

This book reviews several classic laws of psychophysics and presents a new theory to account for the phenomena in question. For psychophysicists, experimental and mathematical psychologists, and researchers studying sensation and perception.

Product details

• Authors: Baird, John C. Baird, Baird John C.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.2016
• EAN: 9781138981645
• ISBN: 978-1-138-98164-5
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Scientific Psychology Series; Scientific Psychology Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Perception, PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Experimental Psychology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Cognition and cognitive psychology