Fechner's legacy in psychology : 150 years of elementary psychophysics / / edited by Joshua A. Solomon.
This collection celebrates the 150th anniversary of Fechner's book on Psychophysics (originally published ten years after his epiphany of Oct. 22, 1850). Topics include modern assessments of the problems with which Fechner wrestled. Also included are more general discussions of psychophysical m...
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill eBook titles 2011
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / J. A. Solomon
- Preface: Commemorating Elemente der Psychophysik / J. A. Solomon
- Fechner’s Law: Where Does The Log Transform Come From? / Donald Laming
- Fechner’s Elusive Parallel Law / Helen E. Ross and Nicholas J. Wade
- Magnitude Of Perceived Change In Natural Images May Be Linearly Proportional To Differences In Neuronal Firing Rates / David J. Tolhurst , Michelle P. S. To , Mazviita Chirimuuta , Tom Troscianko , Pei-Ying Chua and P. George Lovell
- Measuring Perceptual Hysteresis With The Modified Method Of Limits: Dynamics At The Threshold / Howard S. Hock and Gregor Schöner
- Functional Adaptive Sequential Testing / Edward Vul , Jacob Bergsma and Donald I. A. MacLeod
- A Criterion Setting Theory Of Discrimination Learning That Accounts For Anisotropies And Context Effects / Martin Lages and Michel Treisman
- Sensory Integration Across Modalities: How Kinaesthesia Integrates With Vision In Visual Orientation Discrimination / Michel Treisman and Martin Lages
- Fechner’s Aesthetics Revisited / Flip Phillips , J. Farley Norman and Amanda M. Beers
- What Comes Before Psychophysics? The Problem Of `What We Perceive’ And The Phenomenological Exploration Of New Effects / Baingio Pinna
- Index / J. A. Solomon.