Psychophysics without physics: A purely psychological theory of Fechnerian scaling in continuous stimulus spaces

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-50

  Dzhafarov, Ehtibar N ^a,b   Colonius, Hans ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrimination probability; Fechnerian distance; Fechnerian scaling; Observation area; Psychometric length; Psychometric order; Regular minimality; Same different comparisons; Self dissimilarity; Stimulus space; Subjective dissimilarity; Subjective distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 12444272762     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2004.11.003     Document Type: Article

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