Research Catalog

Title

Sensory processes: the new psychophysics [by] Lawrence E. Marks.

Author

Marks, Lawrence E.

Publication

New York, Academic Press, 1974.

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Description

x, 334 pages illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Senses and sensation
• Psychometrics
• Psychophysics
• Psychophysics
• Sensation
• Psychometrics
• Senses and sensation
• Psychophysik
• Zintuigen
• Waarneming
• Psychometrie

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 290-318.

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to sensory scaling. New versus old psychophysics -- Early attempts to quantify sensation -- Early development of the new psychophysics. Chapter 2. The magnitude estimation experiment. Experimental apparatus and arrangement -- Range and number of stimuli -- Temporal spacing of stimuli -- Number of subjects and number of judgments -- The estimation procedure -- Analysis of the results of magnitude estimation. Chapter 3. Sensory magnitude and the sensitivity of sensory systems. The concept of relative sensitivity -- Spectral sensitivity in vision -- Spectral sensitivity in audition -- Olfactory sensitivity -- Taste sensitivity -- Tactile sensitivity -- Sensitivity in relation to responses to stimulus mixtures. Chapter 4. Temporal factors in sensation. Temporal summation -- Adaptation -- Prototypes for models of temporal summation and adaptation -- Adaptation and sensitivity to subsequent stimulation -- Recovery after adaptation -- Repetitive stimulation (Flicker). Chapter 5. Spatial factors in sensation. Spatial summation -- Binocular and binaural summation -- Spatial inhibition -- Locus of stimulation on the sensory surface. Chapter 6. Qualitative and hedonic attributes of sensation. Attributes of sensation -- Dimensions of visual experience -- Dimensions of auditory experience -- Olfactory quality -- Gustatory quality -- Hedonic responses to sensory stimuli. Chapter 7. Interpretations of sensory scales. The nature of scale types -- Scales of sensation -- Validity of sensory scales -- Scales of sensation : Theoretical interpretations.

ISBN

• 0124729509
• 9780124729506

LCCN

73002070

OCLC

• ocm00714112
• 714112
• SCSB-276158

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library