Empirical evaluation of a model of global psychophysical judgments: IV. Forms for the weighting function

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-44

  Steingrimsson, Ragnar ^a   Luce, R Duncan ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Audition; Multiplicative form; Numerical distortion; Power functions; Prelec functions; Psychophysical regression effect; Ratio production and ratio estimation; Reduction invariance; Sequential effects; Weighting function

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845690093     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: 10960880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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