Psychophysics without physics: a purely psychological theory of fechnerian scaling in continuous stimulus spaces

DOI10.1016/j.jmp.2004.11.003zbMath1063.91074OpenAlexW2044674110MaRDI QIDQ1781605

Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov, Hans Colonius

Publication date: 27 June 2005

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2004.11.003

zbMATH Keywords

Fechnerian distanceDiscrimination probabilityObservation areaPsychometric lengthPsychometric orderRegular minimalitySame-different comparisonsSelf-dissimilarityStimulus spaceSubjective dissimilaritySubjective distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Psychophysics and psychophysiology; perception (91E30)

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