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psychophysics
Psychophysics is the field of psychology which quantitatively investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they produce. Psychophysics has been described as "the scientific study of the relation between stimulus and sensation" or, more completely, as "the analysis of perceptual processes by studying the effect on a subject's experience or behaviour of systematically varying the properties of a stimulus along one or more physical dimensions".
Weber–Fechner law
psychophysics law that the minimum perceptible increase of stimulus is proportional to the stimulus and that intensity of our sensation increases logarithmically
Stroop effect
effect of psychological interference on reaction time
detection theory
analyzed the detection of difficult to detect signals and provides a measure of the quality of the detection
sensory analysis
consumer product-testing method
color psychology
study of influence of color on human behaviour
absolute threshold
term in neuroscience and psychophysics
Stevens' power law
empirical relationship in psychophysics between actual and perceived changed intensity of stimulus
contrast effect
perceptual effect of contrasting stimuli
just-noticeable difference
amount that a stimulus must be changed to be detected
odor detection threshold
lowest perceivable odor concentration
sensory threshold
weakest stimulus that an organism can detect
Kruithof curve
color science
scientific study of colors