PsychophysicsTransaction Publishers - 329 pages |
Contents
Sensation and Measurement | 37 |
Intramodal Matching | 63 |
CrossModality Matching | 99 |
Partition Scales and Paradoxes | 134 |
Thresholds and the Neural Quantum | 172 |
Neural Correlates | 202 |
Scaling the Social Consensus | 227 |
Hazards and Remedies | 268 |
References | 297 |
Appendix A Brief Table of Decibels and Common Logarithms | 308 |
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