Why do we perceive logarithmically?

Significance

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 28-31

  Varshney, Lav R ^a   Sun, John Z ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 84873941132     PISSN: 17409705     EISSN: 17409713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00636.x     Document Type: Article

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