Measuring the Soul : Psychophysics for Non-Psychophysicists.

Measuring the Soul : Psychophysics for Non-Psychophysicists.

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Author / Creator:Aleci, Carlo.
Imprint:Les Ulis : EDP Sciences, 2021.
Description:1 online resource (218 p.).
Language:English
Series:Current Natural Sciences Ser.
Current Natural Sciences Ser.
Subject:
Psychophysics.
Psychophysics.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13457483
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ISBN:9782759825189
2759825183
9782759825172
2759825175
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
The Sweet Point-Based MLE Procedure of Shen and Richards (2012).
Summary:Even in the age of Internet, when information and knowledge are just a click away, few probably know what is psychophysics and what is it for. Psychophysics can be romantically defined as the science that measures the soul, namely the sensory soul. Psychophysics estimates the sensibility and looks for the threshold, that ephemeral limit between the sensed and the not sensed, the perceived and the not perceived, the seen and the not seen. It is a challenging task, since this limit is like a butterfly twirling over a flowery meadow, and psychophysics is the tool aimed at measuring as exactly as possible the height of its flight. At the boundary between experimental psychology and sensory neuroscience, psychophysics is not confined within a theoretical framework, but has great importance also in the clinical setting: audiologists, ophthalmologists, optometrists, orthoptists as well as neuropsychiatrists make use of psychophysics in many of their diagnostic protocols. This book aims at describing the principles of this discipline in a simple yet rigorous form, so as to make psychophysics understandable to the broad audience of non-psychophysicists. And, why not, even to reveal its hidden charm.
Other form:Print version: Aleci, Carlo Measuring the Soul : Psychophysics for Non-Psychophysicists Les Ulis : EDP Sciences,c2021 9782759825172
Publisher's no.:FRCYB88911319 Cyberlibris
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Measuring the Soul
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Adequate and Inadequate Stimuli
  • The Threshold
  • Absolute and Difference Threshold
  • Weber's, Fechner's and Stevens' Laws
  • The Psychometric Function
  • Detection and Discrimination Threshold
  • Response Models
  • Yes/No Response Model [Y/N]
  • Alternative Forced Choice Model [AFC]
  • Target Probability in Y/N and AFC Response Models
  • Alternative Unforced Choice Response Model (AUC: Kaernbach, 2001)
  • Modified AUC (Klein, 2001)
  • False-Negative and False-Positive Errors (Lapse and Guess Rate)
  • Psychophysical Procedures
  • Nonadaptive Psychophysical Procedures: the Method of Constant Stimuli
  • Nonadaptive Psychophysical Procedures: theMethod of Limits and the Method of Adjustment
  • Adaptive Psychophysical Procedures
  • Nonparametric Adaptive Psychophysical Procedures
  • Truncated Staircase Method (Simple Up-down Method: Dixon and Mood, 1948
  • von Békésy, 1960
  • Cornsweet, 1962)
  • Transformed Up-Down Staircase Method (Up-down Transformed Response, UDTR: Wetherill and Levitt, 1965
  • Levitt, 1970)
  • Forced-Choice Tracking (Zwislocki et al., 1958)
  • Non-Parametric Up-down Staircase Method (Derman, 1957)
  • Weighted Up-down Method (Kaernbach, 1991)
  • Stochastic Approximation (Robbins and Monro,1951)
  • Accelerated Stochastic Approximation (Kesten, 1958)
  • Block Up-down Temporal Interval Forced Choice (BUDTIF: Campbell and Lasky, 1968)
  • Parameter Estimation by Sequential Testing (PEST: Taylor and Creelman, 1967)
  • A More Virulent PEST (Findlay, 1978)
  • Binary Search and Modified Binary Search (MOBS: Tyrrell and Owens, 1988)
  • Parametric Adaptive Psychophysical Procedures
  • The Maximum Likelihood Estimation [MLE]
  • Psychophysical Procedures Based on MLE: The Best PEST (Pentland, 1980
  • Lieberman and Pentland, 1982)
  • The MLE Simplified Approximation of Emerson (Emerson, 1984)
  • Bayesian Psychophysical Procedures
  • Quick Estimation by Sequential Testing (QUEST: Watson and Pelli, 1979, 1983)
  • ZEST (Zippy Estimation of Sequential Testing:King-Smith et al., 1994)
  • The Minimum Variance Method (King-Smith,1984
  • King-Smith et al., 1994)
  • The Ideal Procedure (IDEAL) or Behemothic Estimation of Sequential Testing (BEST: Pelli, 1987
  • Sims and Pelli, 1987)

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