In Sensory Experiments, Erica Fretwell excavates the nineteenth-century science of psychophysics and its theorizations of sensation to examine the cultural and aesthetic landscape of feeling in nineteenth-century America. Fretwell demonstrates how psychophysics-a scientific move…
by Gentner, Dedre, Stevens, Albert L.
fromCognitive science (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)
Psychophysics: A Practical Introduction, Second Edition, is the primary scientific tool for understanding how the physical world of colors, sounds, odors, movements, and shapes translates into the sensory world of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell; in other words, how matt…
Psychophysics: A Practical Introduction, Second Edition, is the primary scientific tool for understanding how the physical world of colors, sounds, odors, movements, and shapes translates into the sensory world of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell; in other words, how matt…
When most people think of space, they think of physical space. The main theme of this text is that no single geometry describes visual space, but it depends upon stimulus conditions and mental shifts in the subjective meaning of size and distance.
When most people think of space, they think of physical space. The main theme of this text is that no single geometry describes visual space, but it depends upon stimulus conditions and mental shifts in the subjective meaning of size and distance.
"When most people think of space, they think of physical space. However, visual space concerns space as consciously experienced, and it is studied through subjective measures, such as asking people to use numbers to estimate perceived distances, areas, angles, or volumes. This b…
