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Psychophysics: The Fundamentals
by George A. Gescheider. 440 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Psychophysical Measurement Of Thresholds: Differential Sensitivity

2 Psychophysical Measurement Of Thresholds: Absolute Sensitivity

3 The Classical Psychophysical Methods

4 Classical Psychophysical Theory

5 The Theory of Signal Detection

6 Further Considerations of Tsd

7 Procedures of Tsd

8 Some Applications of Tsd

9 The Measurement of Sensory Attributes And Discrimination Scales

10 Partition Scales

11 Psychophysical Ratio Scaling

12 Evaluation of Ratio Scaling Methods

13 The Psychophysical Law

14 Some Fundamental Issues In Psychophysical Scaling

Conclusion

Appendix

Glossary

References

Author Index

Subject Index
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Psychophysics beyond Sensation: Laws and Invariants of Human Cognition
by Christian Kaernbach, Hermann Müller, Erich Schröger. 526 pgs.

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Preface

Guest Editorial

I: Theories of Psychophysical Judgment

Guest Editorial

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1: Perceptual Separability of Stimulus Dimensions: a Fechnerian Analysis

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2: Subjective and Objective Scaling of Large Color Differences

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3: Short-Term and Long-Term Frames of Reference in Category Judgments: a Multiple-Standards Model

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4: Frame of Reference Models in Psychophysics: a Perceptual-Cognitive Approach

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5: Two Kinds of Global Perceptual Separability and Curvature

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II: Timing and Dynamics of Human Performance

Guest Editorial

6: A Psychophysical Approach to Action Timing

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7: Synchronization and Stimulus Timing: Implications for Temporal Models of Visual Information Processing

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8: Functional Architectures in Structural Recognition and the Role of “seeming Redundancy”

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9: Memory-Guided Inference in Same-Different Comparison Tasks

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10: Dimension-Based Visual Attention and Visual Object Segmentation

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11: Timing of “perception” and Perception of “time”

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12: Invariant Time Course of Priming with and Without Awareness

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13: Visual Marking: Using Time as Well as Space in Visual Selection

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III: Psychophysics of Memory

Guest Editorial

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14: Cavanagh's Hypothesis Within the Context of Other Invariance Hypotheses: Theory and Data

15: Auditory Sensory Memory and Short-Term Memory

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16: Encoding and Retrieval Components Affecting Memory Span: Articulation Rate, Memory Search, and Trace Redintegration

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17: Memory Scanning Beyond the Limit—if There is One

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18: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Flows of Information Within Auditory Memory: Electrophysiological Evidence

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IV: Neural and Representational Models

Guest Editorial

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19: The Complementary Brain: from Brain Dynamics to Conscious Experiences

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20: Universal Temporal Structures in Human Information Processing: a Neural Principle and Psychophysical Evidence

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21: Structural Information Theory and Visual Form

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Cognition, Information Processing, and Psychophysics: Basic Issues
by Hans-Georg Geissler, Stephen W. Link, James T. Townsend. 340 pgs.

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I FOUNDATIONS AND EPISTEMOLOGY

1: Fechner's Inner Psychophysics: Its Historical Fate and Present Status

2: Freud and Fechner, Desire and Energy, Hermeneutics and Psychophysics

INTRODUCTION

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

3: Toward a Theory of Consciousness

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

4: Cognitive Development: Two Paradigms

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5: Drawing Inferences from Representation Structure: In Defense of a Formal Theory Of Representations

CONCLUSION

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

6: On the Proper Scales for Reaction Time

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II EXPERIMENTAL THEMES: PERSPECTIVES AND CRITICAL ANALYSES

7: Mental Psychophysics of Categorization and Decision

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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8: Reference Frames in the Perception of Spatial Structure

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9: Context Effects in judgments of Attributes: An Information- Integration Approach

10: Elaborations Upon Psychophysical Contexts for Judgment: Implications of Cognitive Models

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11: Fundamentals of Cognitive Judgments of Pattern

CONCLUSION

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

12: Psychophysical Analysis of Pain: A Functional Perspective

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

13: New Magical Numbers in Mental Activity: On a Taxonomic System for Critical Time Periods

INTRODUCTION

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Sensation and Judgment: Complementarity Theory of Psychophysics
by John C. Baird. 350 pgs.

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1: Complementarity Principle

2: Sensory Aggregate Model

3: Stevens Functions

4: Weber Functions

5: Piéeron Functions

6: Unified Sensory Laws?

7: Memory Psychophysics

8: Number Preference Model

9: Judgment Option Model

10: Ekman Functions

11: Context and Magnitude Estimation

12: Context and Category Estimation

13: Sequence Effects

14: Absolute Identification

15: Unified Judgment Principles?

16: Multidimensional Psychophysics

17: Sensation and Perception

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Nonlinear Psychophysical Dynamics
by Robert A. M. Gregson. 226 pgs.

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1: General Qualitative Dynamics of Some Nonlinear Systems

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2: Choice of a Recursive Core Equation

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3: A Recursive Loop System Using Gamma

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4: A Subjective Weber Function and Output Uncertainty

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5: A Generic Dynamic Mapping of Environment onto the System

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6: Further Variants on Mappings of Inputs

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7: Cascading of the Loop

8: Elementary Identification of Variants and Parameters

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9: Matching Data Patterns and Theory Patterns

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10: Metric or Nonmetric Scaling: Properties of Outputs

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11: Analogues of Sdt and Isocriterion Plots

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12: Range and Transposition Effects

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13: Mixing and Attenuation of Sensory Dimensions

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14: Résumé

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N-Dimensional Nonlinear Psychophysics: Theory and Case Studies
by Robert A. M. Gregson. 312 pgs.

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Preface

Notes

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Notation

1: Definitions in Psychophysics and Psychophysical Systems

2: Nonlinear Psychophysical Dynamics In N Dimensions

3: Theoretical Response Latency Distributions: Stopping or Dropping Out?

4: Sequential Dynamics Of Transposition Phenomena

5: Variations in the Dynamics Of One Component

6: Stability in Three- Dimensional Psychophysics

7: Hypoadditivity and Cross-Coupling and Analogues of the Bunsen-Roscoe Law

8: The Analysis of Nonlinear Binary Mixtures

9: Combining Nonlinearity and Nonstationarity in A Two-Dimensional System

10: Inputs Extended and Superimposed in Time

11: Properties Of Two-Dimensional Networks With Pixels and Phase Unlocking

Technical Appendix 1 Can There Be An Inverse Psychophysical Function?

Technical Appendix 2 The Zehfuss Determinant and Its Operation in N Dimensions

12: References and Bibliography

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Social Attitudes and Psychophysical Measurement
by Bernd Wegener. 502 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction Outline of A Structural Taxonomy of Sensory and Social Psychophysics

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I Approaches to Subjective Magnitude

1: Psychophysical Measurement: Procedures, Tasks, Scales

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2: On Judgments of Magnitude

3: Category Ratings: Still More Contextual Effects!

4: Levels of Sensory and Judgmental Processing: Strategies for the Evaluation of A Model

5: Cognitive Algebra and Social Psychophysics

Ii Psychophysical Measurement in Social Application

6: On the Parallel Between Direct Ratio Scaling of Social Opinion and of Sensory Magnitude

7: The Social-Psychophysical Scaling of Political Opinion

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8: Beliefs and Values as Attitude Components

9: Multidimensional Scaling of Attitudes: Intra- and Interindividual Variations in Preferences and Cognitions

10: The Visual Perception of Texture: A Psychological Investigation of an Architectural Problem

11: Misperception of Exponential Growth and the Psychological Magnitude of Numbers

12: On S. S. Stevens' Psychophysics and the Measurement of Subjective Probability and Utility

Iii Differences and Ratios in Sensory and Social Psychophysics

13: The Nonmetric Analysis of Difference Judgments in Social Psychophysics: Scale Validity and Dimensionality

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14: Intra- and Interindividual Variations in the Form of Psychophysical Scales

15: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Scale Properties of Magnitude-Estimation and Category-Rating Scales

16: Fitting Category to Magnitude Scales for A Dozen Survey-Assessed Attitudes

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17: Controversies in Psychological Measurement

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The Wave Theory of Difference and Similarity (Part I "Psychophysical Origins of Difference and Similarity")
by Stephen W. Link. 378 pgs.

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Preface

I: Psychophysical Origins Of Difference and Similarity

Introduction

1: The Elements

2: Challenges and Extensions

3: The Origin of The Psychometric Function

4: The Law of Comparative Judgment

6: The Psychological Ideal

7: Discrimination And Response Bias

8 Discrimination And Response Strategy

II: Wave Theory

Introduction

9: Wave Discrimination Theory

10: Response Probabilities And Response Times

11 Response Bias

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13: A Theory of Sensation

14 Discriminability And Responsiveness

15: Theory of Feeling

16: Bias, Responsiveness, And Strategy

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DÉnouement

Appendices

References

Supplemental References

Subject Index
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A Functional Theory of Cognition (Chap. 9 "Integration Psychophysics")
by Norman H. Anderson. 502 pgs.

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Dedication

Foreword

Contents

Preface

Preface

Chapter 1 Cognitive Theory of Everyday Life

Notes

Preface

Chapter 2 Cognitive Algebra

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Chapter 3 Psychological Measurement Theory

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Chapter 4 Person Cognition

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Chapter 5 Unified Social Cognition

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Chapter 6 Social Development

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Chapter 7 Moral Algebra

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Chapter 8 Cognitive Development

Notes

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Chapter 9 Integration Psychophysics

Notes

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Chapter 10 Cognitive Theory of Judgment-Decision

Notes

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Chapter 11 Functional Memory

Notes

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Chapter 12 Algebraic Language Processing

Notes

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Chapter 13 Unified Theory

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Ratio Scaling of Psychological Magnitude: In Honor of the Memory of S. S. Stevens (Chap. 10 "Multiple Moduli and Payoff Functions in Psychophysical Scaling" and Chap. 11 "Quality Assurance in Environmental Psychophysics")
by Stanley J. Bolanowski Jr, George A. Gescheider. 330 pgs.

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Preface

A Small Oral History

List of Participants

1: Introduction to Conference on Ratio Scaling of Psychological Magnitudes

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2: What Is A Ratio in Ratio Scaling?

Acknowledgments

References

Introduction

3: Natural Measurement

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Summary

4: The Dynamics of Ratio Scaling

Introduction

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

5: Magnitude Matching: Application to Special Populations

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Acknowledgments

6: A Single Scale Based on Is Ratio and Partition Estimates

Introduction

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7: Associative Measurement of Psychological Magnitude

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8: Toward A Unified Psychophysical Law and Beyond

Introduction

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9: Derivation of An Index of Discrimination from Magnitude Estimation Ratings

9: Derivation of An Index of Discrimination from Magnitude Estimation Ratings