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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
2.
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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Subject Index
3.
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
Author Index
Subject Index
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Sensation and Judgment: Complementarity Theory of Psychophysics
by John C. Baird. 350 pgs.
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Preface
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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Subject Index
5.
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
Subject Index
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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
Subject Index
Author Index
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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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Subject Index
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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
Notes
Preface
Chapter 3 Psychological Measurement Theory
Notes
Preface
Chapter 4 Person Cognition
Notes
Preface
Preface
Chapter 5 Unified Social Cognition
Notes
Preface
Preface
Chapter 6 Social Development
Notes
Preface
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Chapter 7 Moral Algebra
Preface
Preface
Chapter 8 Cognitive Development
Notes
Preface
Preface
Chapter 9 Integration Psychophysics
Notes
Preface
Chapter 10 Cognitive Theory of Judgment-Decision
Notes
Preface
Preface
Chapter 11 Functional Memory
Notes
Preface
Chapter 12 Algebraic Language Processing
Notes
Preface
Preface
Chapter 13 Unified Theory
References
Author Index
Subject Index*
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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
References
Summary
4: The Dynamics of Ratio Scaling
Introduction
References
Acknowledgments
Introduction
5: Magnitude Matching: Application to Special Populations
References
Acknowledgments
6: A Single Scale Based on Is Ratio and Partition Estimates
Introduction
References
7: Associative Measurement of Psychological Magnitude
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8: Toward A Unified Psychophysical Law and Beyond
Introduction
References
9: Derivation of An Index of Discrimination from Magnitude Estimation Ratings
9: Derivation of An Index of Discrimination from Magnitude Estimation Ratings