Ebook: Signal Detection Theory and Psychophysics

CONTAINS INTRODUCTIONS TO PROBABILITY THEORY, STATISTICAL DECISION THEORY, WAVEFORM ANALYSIS, AND EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES. IT REVIEWS THE BASIC EXPERIMENTS THAT SUPPORT THE APPLICATION OF DETECTION THEORY IN PSYCHOPHYSICS, AND DESCRIBES EXPERIMENTAL APPLICATIONS OF THE THEORY TO A VARIETY OF SUBSTANTIVE PROBLEMS IN PSYCHOLOGY. IT CONSIDERS THE COMPLEXITIES AND ISSUES AT THE FRONTIER OF THE FIELD. MAJOR DIVISIONS INCLUDE: (1) DECISION PROCESSES IN DETECTION, (2) SENSORY PROCESSES IN DETECTION, (3) OTHER APPLICATIONS OF DETECTION THEORY, AND (4) APPENDICES.