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 stimulus magnitudes. Although, psychophysics belongs to sensory neuroscience and is strongly coupled to neurophysiology, it also has branched out to various specialized academic fields, including the sciences of vision and hearing, ophthalmology, optometry, otology, and audiology. Due to this diversification and fragmentation psychophysics has had an ad-hoc, phenomenological orientation and, besides theWeber law of differential sensitivity, has lacked a systematic grid of scientific laws. No other books focused on multisensory psychophysical laws Author is a ‘giant’ in the field of psychophysics INDICE: Preface.- Stevens’ Power Law: Definition and Genesis.- Theory of Magnitude Estimation.- Magnitude Production and Magnitude Balance.- Cross-modalMatching 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 ofDifferential Sensitivity: Introduction.- Weber’s Fraction Independent of the Rate of Response Growth.- The Generalized Law of Differential Sensitivity.- Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-84848-8
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 230
- Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés