A note on cross-modality matching |
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Authors: | Carl Auerbach |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Psychology, Yeshiva University, 55 Fifth Avenue, New York, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | ”Stevens' law”, that the psychophysical law is a power function, is often taken to be confirmed by results of cross-modality matching experiments, for it predicts both the fact that cross-modality matching experiments yield power functions, and the exponents of these power functions. Both these predictions, however, follow from a more general form of the psychophysical law, of which Fechner's law is a special case. In view of this, an interpretation of cross-modality matching based on stimulus discriminability rather than sensation magnitude is proposed. |
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