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On the Use and Misuse of Psychophysical Terms
Treisman, Michel
Psychological Review, 83, 3, 246-56, May 76
The use of the terms "sensitivity, threshold, bias, and ratio scale" in psychophysics is discussed, with special reference to the statistical decision theory of sensory discrimination and its application to signal detection and classical psychophysical procedures. (Editor)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Definitions, Diagrams, Psychological Studies, Psychophysiology, Semantics, Sensory Experience, Theories
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