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Psychophysics can be broadly defined as the quantification of sensory experience. This entails not only the assessment of human powers of signal detection and sensory discrimination but also the calibration of subjectively perceived intensities and other parameters of stimulation.
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MacKay, D.M. (1988). Psychophysics and Neurophysiology. In: States of Brain and Mind. Readings from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience . Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6771-8_36
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