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Zusatztext "Birgitta Berglund and Giovanni Battista Rossi! two distinguished and active scientists in the field! have brought together in this volume a set of valuable papers by experts. It is a most welcome contribution to an important area of measurement science."-Ludwik Finkelstein! Ph.D.!OBE FREng! City University! United Kingdom"This collection of 16 chapters on human measurement topics follows the 20th Century tradition of Handbooks except for being uniquely international in scope. It appears to stem from the annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. Of course! brain imaging is a substantial presence."-R. Duncan Luce! Ph.D.! University of California! Irvine! USA Informationen zum Autor Berglund, Birgitta; Rossi, Giovanni B.; Townsend, James T.; Pendrill, Leslie R. Zusammenfassung This book is a multi- and interdisciplinary volume in which scientists from the psychological, physical, biological, and social sciences reach a common understanding of measurement theory and methods. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1. Theory and Methods . B. Berglund, G.B. Rossi, A. Wallard , Measurement Across Physical and Behavioural Sciences. B. Berglund , Measurement in Psychology. T. Goodman , Measurement of Physical Parameters in Sensory Science. F.S. Roberts , Meaningful and Meaningless Statements in Epidemiology and Public Health. G.B. Rossi , Towards a Probabilistic Theory of Measurement. G.W.A.M. van der Heijden, R. Emardson , Multivariate Measurements. J.T. Townsend, D. Burns, L. Pei , The Prospects for Measurement in Infinite Dimensional Psychological Spaces. S. Link, Psychophysical Linguistics. E.N. Dzhafarov , Mathematical Foundations of Universal Fechnerian Scaling. C. Eitzinger, W. Heidl , Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems. Part 2. Implementation Areas . P. Susini, G. Lemaitre, S. McAdams , Psychological Measurement for Sound Description and Evaluation. R. Hölzl, D. Kleinböhl, J. Trojan , Nociception and Pain in Thermal Skin Sensitivity. B.M. Velichkovsky et al. , Measurement-related Issues in the Investigation of Active Vision. P.A. Della Rosa, D. Perani , Electrical and Functional Brain Imaging. C.B.A. Sinke, M.E. Kret, B. de Gelder , Body Language: Embodied Perception of Emotions. L. Pendrill , Risk Assessment and Decision-making. ...
