Psychophysics

Psychophysics is the primary scientific tool for understanding how the physical world of colors, sounds, odors, movements and shapes translates into the sensory world of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell - in other words how matter translates into mind. This book also provides practical tips for designing psychophysical experiments.

Autorentext
Fred Kingdom is a Professor at McGill University conducting research into a variety of aspects of visual perception. He studied and held research positions at Cambridge, London and Reading Universities before taking up his current position at McGill in 1990. He has published over 125 articles, and recently won an award for a new visual illusion. Nick Prins is an Associate Professor at the University of Mississippi specializing in a variety of aspects of visual perception and the use of statistical methods in the collection and analysis of psychophysical data. He has held research positions in Australia and Canada before taking up his current position at the University of Mississippi.

Inhalt

Ch. 1. Introduction and aims

Ch. 2. Classifying psychophysical experiments

Ch. 3. Varieties of psychophysical procedure

Ch. 4. Psychometric functions

Ch. 5. Adaptive methods

Ch. 6. Signal detection measures

Ch. 7. Scaling methods

Ch. 8. Model comparisons

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