Sensory Neuroscience: Four Laws of Psychophysics

• Main Author: Zwislocki, Jozef J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Neurosciences.; Philosophy of mind.; Ophthalmology.; Otorhinolaryngology.; Animal behavior.; Life Sciences.; Behavioural Sciences.; Philosophy of Mind.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84849-5

Sensory Neuroscience:Four Laws of Psychophysics examines both psychophysics, the science of relationships between human sensations, and the stimuli that evoke them. More specifically, it defines four multisensory relationships of great generality between sensation magnitudes and the underlying stimu...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Stevens Power Law: Definition and Genesis
• Theory of Magnitude Estimation
• Magnitude Production and Magnitude Balance
• Cross-modal Matching and Transitivity.-Relevant Theory of Measurement
• Validity of the Power Law
• Generality
• The Context Problem
• Physiological Correlates
• Law of Asymptotic Linearity: Definition and Genesis
• Underlying Biophysical Process
• Generality
• Law of Additivity: Definition and Consistency with Ratio Scaling
• Further Validation of the Law for Loudness
• Generality
• General Law of Differential Sensitivity: Introduction
• Webers Fraction Independent of the Rate of Response Growth
• The Generalized Law of Differential Sensitivity
• Index.