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 Fechner's Legacy in Psychology: 150 Years of Elementary Psychophysics

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-vi)   (107K)
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    • Contents
  • Preface: Commemorating Elemente der Psychophysik (1-6)   (122K)
  • Fechner's Law: Where Does The Log Transform Come From? (7-24) by Donald Laming   (483K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Difference Discriminations
    • 3. The Logarithmic Transform
    • 4. The χ2 Model
    • 5. Detectability Functions
    • Notes
    • References
  • Fechner's Elusive Parallel Law (25-38) by Helen E. Ross and Nicholas J. Wade   (372K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Weight Perception And Discrimination
    • 3. Light Adaptation
    • 4. Sensations Of Extent
    • 5. Adaptation And Contrast Effects In Other Visual Tasks
    • 6. Conclusions
    • References
  • Magnitude Of Perceived Change In Natural Images May Be Linearly Proportional To Differences In Neuronal Firing Rates (39-62) by David J. Tolhurst, Michelle P. S. To, Mazviita Chirimuuta, Tom Troscianko, Pei-Ying Chua and P. George Lovell   (914K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Methods
    • 3. Results
    • 4. Discussion
    • References
  • Measuring Perceptual Hysteresis With The Modified Method Of Limits: Dynamics At The Threshold (63-86) by Howard S. Hock and Gregor Schöner   (815K)
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    • 1. The Classical Method Of Limits
    • 2. Perceptual Hysteresis
    • 3. Response Perseveration And Decision/Response Time
    • 4. The Modified Method Of Limits
    • 5. Judgment Uncertainty
    • 6. Inferences From Trial Duration And Single-Element Apparent Motion
    • 7. Near-Threshold Neural Dynamics
    • 8. Conclusion
    • Notes
    • References
    • Appendix
  • Functional Adaptive Sequential Testing (87-120) by Edward Vul, Jacob Bergsma and Donald I. A. MacLeod   (1M)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Unidimensional Adaptive Testing
    • 3. Multidimensional Adaptive Testing
    • 4. Theoretical Framework
    • 5. Implementation
    • 6. Simulation Results
    • 7. Psychophysical Results
    • 8. Discussion
    • 9. Summary
    • Notes
    • References
    • Appendix A: Functional Adaptive Sequential Testing (FAST) Matlab Toolbox
    • Appendix B: Minimizing Expected Posterior Entropy
    • Appendix C: Minimizing Expected Average Posterior Predictive Variance
  • A Criterion Setting Theory Of Discrimination Learning That Accounts For Anisotropies And Context Effects (121-154) by Martin Lages and Michel Treisman   (554K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Criterion Setting Theory
    • 3. A Criterion Setting Model For Discrimination Learning
    • 4. Predictions From CST-DL
    • 5. Discussion And Conclusion
    • References
  • Sensory Integration Across Modalities: How Kinaesthesia Integrates With Vision In Visual Orientation Discrimination (155-182) by Michel Treisman and Martin Lages   (334K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Criterion Setting Theory And Discrimination Learning
    • 3. A Criterion Setting Theory Of Sensory Integration (CST-SI)
    • 4. An Experiment On Orientation Discrimination
    • 5. Results
    • 6. Discussion And Conclusion
    • References
  • Fechner's Aesthetics Revisited (183-192) by Flip Phillips, J. Farley Norman and Amanda M. Beers   (301K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Experimental
    • 3. General Discussion
    • Notes
    • References
  • What Comes Before Psychophysics? The Problem Of `What We Perceive' And The Phenomenological Exploration Of New Effects (193-212) by Baingio Pinna   (225K)
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    • 1. From Phenomenology To Psychophysics: The Problem Of ‘What We Perceive’
    • 2. General Methods
    • 3. From What We Perceive To What We Can Perceive: Exploring A World Of Possible Perceptions
    • 4. On The Phenomenological Exploration
    • References
  • Index (213-214)   (57K)