Sensation and Measurement

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Psychophysics, Measurement, Sensory Physiology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Similarities of Inhibition in the Different Sense Organs

      • Georg Von Békésy

      Pages 3-21

   3. Some Technical Notes on Psychophysical Scaling

      • David V. Cross

      Pages 23-36

   4. Relations of Peripheral Action Potentials and Cortical Evoked Potentials to the Magnitude of Sensation

      • Hallowell Davis

      Pages 37-47

   5. An Assessment of Ratio Scales of Opinion Produced by Sensory-Modality Matching

      • William E. Dawson

      Pages 49-59

   6. The Derivation of Stevens’ Psychophysical Power Law

      • Hannes Eisler

      Pages 61-64

   7. Cross-Modality Matching of Money Against Other Continua

      • Eugene Galanter, Patricia Pliner

      Pages 65-76

   8. The Stimulus in Information Processing

      • Wendell R. Garner

      Pages 77-90

   9. On the Sensory Evaluation of Compliant Materials

      • Roland Harper

      Pages 91-98

   10. Ratios of Magnitude Estimates

       • R. Duncan Luce, David M. Green

       Pages 99-111

   11. Measurement, Invariance, and Psychophysics

       • Richard J. W. Mansfield

       Pages 113-128

   12. Listen and Hear

       • George A. Miller

       Pages 129-135

   13. On the Origin of “Scales of Measurement”

       • Edwin B. Newman

       Pages 137-145

   14. The New York Study of Physical Constitution and Psychotic Pattern

       • William H. Sheldon

       Pages 147-155

   15. Families of Converging Power Functions in Psychophysics

       • Joseph C. Stevens

       Pages 157-165

   16. On Facts and Theories in Psychophysics: Does Ekman’s Law Exist?

       • Robert Teghtsoonian

       Pages 167-176

   17. A Quantal Model for Psychological Magnitude and Differential Sensitivity

       • John Volkmann

       Pages 177-184

   18. A Power Function for Sensory Receptors

       • Jozef J. Zwislocki

       Pages 185-197

3. Hearing, Speech

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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We planned this book as a Festschrift for Smitty Stevens because we thought he might be retiring around 1974, although we knew very well that only death or deep illness would stop Smitty from doing science. Death came suddenly, unexpectedly - after a full day of skiing at Vail, Colorado on the annual trip with wife Didi to the Winter Conference on Brain Research. Smitty liked winter conferences near ski resorts and often tried to get us other psychophysicists to organize one. Every person is unique. Smitty would have said it's mainly because each of us has so many genes that two combinations just alike would be well-nigh impossible. But most of us strive in many ways to be like others, and to abide by the norms (some smaller number try even harder to be unlike other people); as a result many persons seem to lose their uniqueness, their individuality. Not Smitty. He tried neither to be like others nor to be different. He took himself as he found himself, and ascribed peculiarities, strengths, and weaknesses to his pioneering Utah forebears, in whom he took much pride. His was the true and right nonconformity. He approached each task, each problem, ready to grapple with the facts and set them into meaningful order. And if the answer he came up with was different from everyone else's, well that was too bad.

• DEX
• Processing
• Variance
• adaptation
• boundary element method
• evaluation
• information processing
• localization
• model
• pattern
• patterns
• peripheral
• psychophysics
• signal detection theory
• story

• U.S. Army Natick Laboratories, Natick, USA

  Howard R. Moskowitz

• Northeastern University, Boston, USA

  Bertram Scharf

• John B. Pierce Foundation Laboratory, USA

  Joseph C. Stevens

• Yale University, New Haven, USA

  Joseph C. Stevens

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