Context effects on cross-modality equations of sensory magnitude
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Ann Howell Hardy (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Kendon Smith
Abstract: Individuals are equipped with sense organs which serve as receptors to handle inputs of physical energy. These inputs exist, for example, in the form of light waves and of sound waves. The characteristics of the sensation which may arise depend upon the nature of the inputs, as well as upon certain physiological events that take place within the sense organ itself and within the brain. In psychology, matters of this sort are the concern of the specialty of psychophysics, which seeks to explain how sensory experiences are related to the different physical energies that arouse them. One important purpose of psychophysical investigations has been to ascertain information about the strength of sensations or, in other words, to determine how an increase in the physical energy conveyed by a stimulus affects the sensation experienced. As in other attributes of sensation, intensity does not follow a one-to-one relationship with some aspect of the physical energy applied. "Physical events follow one set of laws and have their own natural units of magnitude; mental events follow other laws and have different units.”1
Context effects on cross-modality equations of sensory magnitude
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- Publication
- Honors Project
- Language: English
- Date: 1961