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R. Teghtsoonian (1971) argued that psychological dynamic range and subjective resolving power are constant for all perceptual intensity scales. It follows that there is an upper limit to the number of sensations humans can process on all scales, and a formula is developed.
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Brenner, M. Personal dynamic range and Stevens’ law exponents. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, 1975.
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This paper was sponsored by Irwin Pollack who takes full editorial responsibility for its contents. It was written while visiting at the Harvard Laboratory for Psychophysics.
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Brenner, M. A limit to intensity perception. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 7, 478 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337252
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