Sensation and Measurement: Papers in Honor of S. S. Stevens

ISBN-13: 9789401022477 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 470 str.

H. R. Moskowitz; B. Scharf; J. C. Stevens

Opis

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.

Spis treści

I/Psychophysics, Measurement, Sensory Physiology.- Similarities of Inhibition in the Different Sense Organs.- Some Technical Notes on Psychophysical Scaling.- Relations of Peripheral Action Potentials and Cortical Evoked Potentials to the Magnitude of Sensation.- An Assessment of Ratio Scales of Opinion Produced by Sensory-Modality Matching.- The Derivation of Stevens’ Psychophysical Power Law.- Cross-Modality Matching of Money against other Continua.- The Stimulus in Information Processing.- On the Sensory Evaluation of Compliant Materials.- Ratios of Magnitude Estimates.- Measurement, Invariance, and Psychophysics.- Listen and Hear.- On the Origin of “Scales of Measurement”.- The New York Study of Physical Constitution and Psychotic Pattern.- Families of Converging Power Functions in Psychophysics.- On Facts and Theories in Psychophysics: Does Ekman’s Law Exist?.- A Quantal Model for Psychological Magnitude and Differential Sensitivity.- A Power Function for Sensory Receptors.- II/Hearing, Speech.- Auditory Masking and Signal Detection Theory.- An Audiogram Format Conveying the Psychophysiology of Hearing.- The Human Auditory Evoked Response.- Is the Power Law Simply Related to the Driven Spike Response Rate from the Whole Auditory Nerve?.- Critical Bandwidth in Man and Some Other Species in Relation to the Traveling Wave Envelope.- Effect of Spread of Excitation on the Loudness Function at 250 Hz.- Temporal Order and Auditory Perception.- The Link Between Speech Production and Speech Perception.- Matching Loudness and Vocal Level: An Experiment Requiring No Apparatus.- Prediction of Paired-Comparison and Magnitude-Estimation Judgments of Noisiness.- Voice Spectrum and Sidetone Spectrum.- The Slope of the Loudness Function: A Puzzle.- Localization of Unlike Tones from Two Loudspeakers.- Psychophysical Correlates of Middle-Ear-Muscle Action.- Loudness and Excitation Patterns of Strongly Frequency Modulated Tones.- III/Vision, Taste, Warmth.- The Effects of Caffeine on Terminal Dark Adaptation.- Scaling of Saturation and Hue Shift: Summary of Results and Implications.- Smitty Stevens’ Test of Retinex Theory.- Spatial Summation in the Warmth Sense.- Models of Additivity for Sugar Sweetness.- Visual Perceptualization of Tetrachoric Correlations.- Rod Signals in Higher Color Mechanisms: The McCollough Color Aftereffect Observed in Scotopic Illumination.- The Doubtful Phenomenon of Over-Constancy.- IV/A Brief Autobiography.- Notes for a Life Story.- S. S. Stevens’ Bibliography.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.