The Measurement of Sensation: A Critique of Perceptual PsychophysicsThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970. |
Contents
THE PROBLEM OF PSYCHOPHYSICAL MEASUREMENT | 1 |
SOUNDS AND SENSATIONS | 18 |
SOUNDS AND SOUND WAVES | 60 |
THE NARROW VIEW OF MEASUREMENT | 99 |
BROADER VIEWS OF MEASUREMENT | 157 |
THE MEASUREMENT OF LOUDNESS | 214 |
THE MEASUREMENT OF PITCH | 246 |
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The Measurement of Sensation: A Critique of Perceptual Psychophysics C. Wade Savage Limited preview - 1970 |
The Measurement of Sensation: A Critique of Perceptual Psychophysics C. Wade Savage Limited preview - 2021 |
The Measurement of Sensation: A Critique of Perceptual Psychophysics C. Wade Savage Limited preview - 2023 |
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