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Psychophysics quantitatively investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they affect. 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".
Psychophysics also refers to a general class of methods that can be applied to study a perceptual system. Modern applications rely heavily on threshold measurement,ideal observer analysis, and signal detection theory.
Psychophysics has widespread and important practical applications. For example, in the study of digital signal processing, psychophysics has informed the development of models and methods of lossy compression. These models explain why humans perceive very little loss of signal quality when audio and video signals are formatted using lossy compression.
Psychophysics quantitatively investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they affect. 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". Psychophysics also refers to a general class of methods that can be applied to study a perceptual system. Modern applications rely heavily on threshold measurement, ideal observer analysis, and signal detection theory. This video is targeted to blind users. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA Creative Commons image source i...
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By Peter Smith. A short description of the contributions to Psychology of Gustav Fechner. For updates on my videos on Facebook "like": http://www.facebook.com/PeterSmithsVideos For details of this lecture course on the History of Psychology see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjlNmLHC8Q8&feature;=plcp
Psychophysics The study of sense vs. perception In this experiment, 30 volunteers were asked to try samples of Coke and Coke Zero. They were then asked if they could distinguish between the two drinks. Credit: Music produced by Butch Walker Title: Open Happiness Copyright disclaimer! I do NOT own the song featured in the video. All rights belong to it's rightful owner/owner's. No copyright infringement intended. Support the artist/s by purchasing their single/album. Coca-Cola, Coke, Coca-Cola Zero and Coke Zero are registered trademarks of the Coca-Cola Company
MIT 9.04 Sensory Systems, Fall 2013 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/9-04F13 Instructor: Chris Brown This video covers the auditory nerves and frequency resolution, including tuning and tonotopy, frequency discrimination and phase locking. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu