by Prof. Dr. Alejandro Parraga
Psychophysics is the branch of experimental psychology concerned with the relationship between a given physical stimulus and the sensation elicited by that stimulus. It has two remarkable roles, to describe and specify the sensory mechanisms underlying human performance and to test the hypotheses and models explaining these same mechanisms. In this lecture we will learn about the measurement process, both of physical magnitudes and sensation. We will review the most important methods for collecting psychophysical data from human subjects and explore them through a series of real laboratory cases. Time allowing, we will mention more advanced concepts in signal detection theory and scaling methods.
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