Fechner's legacy in psychology 150 years of elementary psychophysics / edited by Joshua A. Solomon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Solomon, Joshua A.

Series:

Brill eBook titles 2011

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychophysics.

Fechner, Gustav Theodor, 1801-1887. Elemente der Psychophysik.

Fechner, Gustav Theodor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 methodology, psychophysical theory, and how these two things can be useful in areas not normally associated with psychophysics. Furthermore, these works provide an entrée into Fechner’s ideas, which is perhaps more accessible than his seminal work itself.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613161048

9781283161046

1283161044

9789004192010

9004192018

OCLC:

743804587

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004192201.i-214 DOI