To Honor Fechner and Obey Stevens: Relationships Between Psychophysical and Neural Nonlinearities

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-18

  Billock, Vincent A ^a   Tsou, Brian H ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inner and outer psychophysics; MacKay model; Naka Rushton neural nonlinearity; Psychophysical power law; Weber's law

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HISTORY; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 78751534464     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021394     Document Type: Article

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