This suggests that the Parapsychological Association might have been called the
Psychophysics Association.
For good reason, then, Cassirer selects the thermometer to stand in for a larger critique of
psychophysics. A glass tube with etched markings in which the volume of mercury (or alcohol, or water, in the long history of thermometer production and calibration [Chang, 2004]) expands to indicate rising temperature and contracts as temperature falls--what does the process of expansion and contraction in this tube necessarily have to do with other phenomena of heat and their measurability?
Kerzel, "Effects of relevant and irrelevant color singletons on inhibition of return and attentional capture," Attention, Perception, &
Psychophysics, vol.
The equations derived from
psychophysics have a stimulus-centric view regarding changes in human perception, or they postulate that the perception changes relative to stimulus changes.
Leutner, "Temporal discrimination as a function of marker duration," Perception and
Psychophysics, vol.
Boyce's book is probably the very best blend of vision science,
psychophysics, and application.
Authors also discuss a new paradigm of the
psychophysics of consciousness, the practical implications of their research, and directions for further research.
Clinical trails concentrate on cataract, glaucoma, corneal transplantation, pterygium and retinal surgery trails, pharmaceutical and ocular drug delivery trails, visual
psychophysics studies and refractive surgery and myopia clinical trails.
The kind of desultory skimming usually condemned as a hallmark of semi-literacy (or of the unscrupulous practices of indolent reviewers), meanwhile, was reconfigured in the novels of George Meredith, who was drawing implicitly on the notion of measurable units of consciousness developed in the discipline of '
psychophysics', as a more democratic version of the high cultural emphasis on aphorisms, epigrams, and other discontinuous parts of larger works.
The growing field of memory
psychophysics (Algom, 1992) provides abundant evidence that magnitude-response associations can be committed to memory and maintained over extended periods.
No previous study in the
psychophysics of size has controlled this property of the stimulus objects, and hence it is likely that the pattern of variability in each of the three dimensions was the major determinant of the size of the Stevens's exponent in previous studies.