Psychological relations and psychophysical scales: On the status of direct psychophysical measurement

DOI10.1016/0022-2496(81)90034-1zbMath0468.92019OpenAlexW2029957774MaRDI QIDQ1156728

Roger N. Shepard

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Psychology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2496(81)90034-1

zbMATH Keywords

direct psychophysical measurementpsychophysical scalesstimulus magnitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Psychophysics and psychophysiology; perception (91E30) Mathematical psychology (91E99)

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