NOUN
- the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects
How To Use psychophysics In A Sentence
- I thought of biochemistry in our neighboring sciences and of psychophysics, and more recently of psychopharmacology, as examples of fruitful splitting and recombination in our own science.
- Their expertise span from biopsychology to clinical psychology, from cognitive psychology to professional ethics and standards, and from perception and psychophysics to industrial psychology.
- The term psychophysics is employed to denote a branch of experimental psychology which seeks to establish quantitative laws describing the general relations of intensity exhibited in various kinds of conscious states under certain conditions. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
- During the next years in Vienna, he also taught classes in psychophysics and a class entitled Ernst Mach
- They used psychophysics to show that capsaicin (found in chillies) could produce practical oral analgesia in cancer patients with oral lesions.
- Objective To establish a mapping protocol for infants and young children cochlear implant recipient who are not able to finish psychophysics test.
- Working at the intersection of computer science, biophysics, material science, biomechanics, and psychophysics, Matsuoka creates sophisticated prosthetic devices and designs complementary rehabilitation strategies. Yoky Matsuoka: Neurobotics
- In psychophysics, 'ions traveling opposite to the plasma current’ are described as ‘counterpassing'.
- A book on the atomic theory, classic also; four elaborate mathematical and experimental volumes on what he called psychophysics -- many persons consider Fechner to have practically founded scientific psychology in the first of these books; a volume on organic evolution, and two works on experimental aesthetics, in which again Fechner is considered by some judges to have laid the foundations of a new science, must be included among these other performances. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
- A book on the atomic theory, classic also; four elaborate mathematical and experimental volumes on what he called psychophysics (many persons consider Fechner to have practically founded scientific psychology in the first of these books); a volume on organic evolution, and two works on experimental æsthetics, in which again Fechner is thought by some judges to have laid the foundations of a new science," are among his other performances .... The Centaur