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psychophysics
n.
study of the relationship between physical stimuli and the manner in which they are perceived in the mind (Psychology)
Psychophysics
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
Noun
1. the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects
(hypernym) experimental psychology, psychonomics
(class) just-noticeable difference, jnd
Psychophysics
(n.)
The science of the connection between nerve action and consciousness; the science which treats of the relations of the psychical and physical in their conjoint operation in man; the doctrine of the relation of function or dependence between body and soul.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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