Ebook: Sensation and Measurement: Papers in Honor of S. S. Stevens

We planned this book as a Festschrift for Smitty Stevens because we thought he might be retiring around 1974, although we knew very well that only death or deep illness would stop Smitty from doing science. Death came suddenly, unexpectedly - after a full day of skiing at Vail, Colorado on the annual trip with wife Didi to the Winter Conference on Brain Research. Smitty liked winter conferences near ski resorts and often tried to get us other psychophysicists to organize one. Every person is unique. Smitty would have said it's mainly because each of us has so many genes that two combinations just alike would be well-nigh impossible. But most of us strive in many ways to be like others, and to abide by the norms (some smaller number try even harder to be unlike other people); as a result many persons seem to lose their uniqueness, their individuality. Not Smitty. He tried neither to be like others nor to be different. He took himself as he found himself, and ascribed peculiarities, strengths, and weaknesses to his pioneering Utah forebears, in whom he took much pride. His was the true and right nonconformity. He approached each task, each problem, ready to grapple with the facts and set them into meaningful order. And if the answer he came up with was different from everyone else's, well that was too bad.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Similarities of Inhibition in the Different Sense Organs....Pages 3-21
Some Technical Notes on Psychophysical Scaling....Pages 23-36
Relations of Peripheral Action Potentials and Cortical Evoked Potentials to the Magnitude of Sensation....Pages 37-47
An Assessment of Ratio Scales of Opinion Produced by Sensory-Modality Matching....Pages 49-59
The Derivation of Stevens’ Psychophysical Power Law....Pages 61-64
Cross-Modality Matching of Money Against Other Continua....Pages 65-76
The Stimulus in Information Processing....Pages 77-90
On the Sensory Evaluation of Compliant Materials....Pages 91-98
Ratios of Magnitude Estimates....Pages 99-111
Measurement, Invariance, and Psychophysics....Pages 113-128
Listen and Hear....Pages 129-135
On the Origin of “Scales of Measurement”....Pages 137-145
The New York Study of Physical Constitution and Psychotic Pattern....Pages 147-155
Families of Converging Power Functions in Psychophysics....Pages 157-165
On Facts and Theories in Psychophysics: Does Ekman’s Law Exist?....Pages 167-176
A Quantal Model for Psychological Magnitude and Differential Sensitivity....Pages 177-184
A Power Function for Sensory Receptors....Pages 185-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Auditory Masking and Signal Detection Theory....Pages 201-205
An Audiogram Format Conveying the Psychophysiology of Hearing....Pages 207-213
The Human Auditory Evoked Response....Pages 215-221
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Is the Power Law Simply Related to the Driven Spike Response Rate from the Whole Auditory Nerve?....Pages 223-229
Critical Bandwidth in Man and Some Other Species in Relation to the Traveling Wave Envelope....Pages 231-239
Effect of Spread of Excitation on the Loudness Function at 250 Hz....Pages 241-249
Temporal Order and Auditory Perception....Pages 251-258
The Link Between Speech Production and Speech Perception....Pages 259-269
Matching Loudness and Vocal Level: An Experiment Requiring No Apparatus....Pages 271-274
Prediction of Paired-Comparison and Magnitude-Estimation Judgments of Noisiness....Pages 275-283
Voice Spectrum and Sidetone Spectrum....Pages 285-294
The Slope of the Loudness Function: A Puzzle....Pages 295-307
Localization of Unlike Tones from Two Loudspeakers....Pages 309-314
Psychophysical Correlates of Middle-Ear-Muscle Action....Pages 315-324
Loudness and Excitation Patterns of Strongly Frequency Modulated Tones....Pages 325-335
Front Matter....Pages 337-337
The Effects of Caffeine on Terminal Dark Adaptation....Pages 339-349
Scaling of Saturation and Hue Shift: Summary of Results and Implications....Pages 351-362
Smitty Stevens’ Test of Retinex Theory....Pages 363-368
Spatial Summation in the Warmth Sense....Pages 369-378
Models of Additivity for Sugar Sweetness....Pages 379-388
Visual Perceptualization of Tetrachoric Correlations....Pages 389-401
Rod Signals in Higher Color Mechanisms: The McCollough Color Aftereffect Observed in Scotopic Illumination....Pages 403-410
The Doubtful Phenomenon of Over-Constancy....Pages 411-420
Back Matter....Pages 447-469
Notes for A Life Story....Pages 423-446

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Similarities of Inhibition in the Different Sense Organs....Pages 3-21
Some Technical Notes on Psychophysical Scaling....Pages 23-36
Relations of Peripheral Action Potentials and Cortical Evoked Potentials to the Magnitude of Sensation....Pages 37-47
An Assessment of Ratio Scales of Opinion Produced by Sensory-Modality Matching....Pages 49-59
The Derivation of Stevens’ Psychophysical Power Law....Pages 61-64
Cross-Modality Matching of Money Against Other Continua....Pages 65-76
The Stimulus in Information Processing....Pages 77-90
On the Sensory Evaluation of Compliant Materials....Pages 91-98
Ratios of Magnitude Estimates....Pages 99-111
Measurement, Invariance, and Psychophysics....Pages 113-128
Listen and Hear....Pages 129-135
On the Origin of “Scales of Measurement”....Pages 137-145
The New York Study of Physical Constitution and Psychotic Pattern....Pages 147-155
Families of Converging Power Functions in Psychophysics....Pages 157-165
On Facts and Theories in Psychophysics: Does Ekman’s Law Exist?....Pages 167-176
A Quantal Model for Psychological Magnitude and Differential Sensitivity....Pages 177-184
A Power Function for Sensory Receptors....Pages 185-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Auditory Masking and Signal Detection Theory....Pages 201-205
An Audiogram Format Conveying the Psychophysiology of Hearing....Pages 207-213
The Human Auditory Evoked Response....Pages 215-221
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Is the Power Law Simply Related to the Driven Spike Response Rate from the Whole Auditory Nerve?....Pages 223-229
Critical Bandwidth in Man and Some Other Species in Relation to the Traveling Wave Envelope....Pages 231-239
Effect of Spread of Excitation on the Loudness Function at 250 Hz....Pages 241-249
Temporal Order and Auditory Perception....Pages 251-258
The Link Between Speech Production and Speech Perception....Pages 259-269
Matching Loudness and Vocal Level: An Experiment Requiring No Apparatus....Pages 271-274
Prediction of Paired-Comparison and Magnitude-Estimation Judgments of Noisiness....Pages 275-283
Voice Spectrum and Sidetone Spectrum....Pages 285-294
The Slope of the Loudness Function: A Puzzle....Pages 295-307
Localization of Unlike Tones from Two Loudspeakers....Pages 309-314
Psychophysical Correlates of Middle-Ear-Muscle Action....Pages 315-324
Loudness and Excitation Patterns of Strongly Frequency Modulated Tones....Pages 325-335
Front Matter....Pages 337-337
The Effects of Caffeine on Terminal Dark Adaptation....Pages 339-349
Scaling of Saturation and Hue Shift: Summary of Results and Implications....Pages 351-362
Smitty Stevens’ Test of Retinex Theory....Pages 363-368
Spatial Summation in the Warmth Sense....Pages 369-378
Models of Additivity for Sugar Sweetness....Pages 379-388
Visual Perceptualization of Tetrachoric Correlations....Pages 389-401
Rod Signals in Higher Color Mechanisms: The McCollough Color Aftereffect Observed in Scotopic Illumination....Pages 403-410
The Doubtful Phenomenon of Over-Constancy....Pages 411-420
Back Matter....Pages 447-469
Notes for A Life Story....Pages 423-446
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