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Four experiments are reported in which the direct psychophysical scaling methods of magnitude estimation, category judgment, and cross-modality matching were mixed in the same series of trials, both with a single stimulus modality and in a mixed-modality situation. The mixed-method scaling situation gave results consistent with those obtained when methods are used alone, and it has several advantages. Interactions between the methods were consistent with the idea that judgments made under all three are mediated by a primitive process of categorization that is influenced by heuristics used to achieve a single category identity for each stimulus.
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This research was supported by a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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Ward, L.M. Mixed-method mixed-modality psychophysical scaling. Perception & Psychophysics 48, 571–582 (1990). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03211603
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03211603