TY - JOUR
T1 - Memory Psychophysics
T2 - An Examination of its Perceptual and Cognitive Prospects
AU - Algom, Daniel
N1 - Funding Information:
Preparation of this chapter was supported in part by grant 89-00460 from the US- Israel Binational Science Foundation. I thank Ella Gindi and Avi Szanto for excellent technical assistance.
PY - 1992/1/1
Y1 - 1992/1/1
N2 - This chapter provides an overview of memory psychophysics. Psychophysics is the science that explicates the functional relations between physical stimuli and the resulting sensory responses. Memory psychophysics, or mnemophysics, is the branch of psychophysics that treats the functional relations between physical stimuli and their remembered sensory responses. Memory psychophysics derives from the two branches of experimental psychology. Both psychophysicists and memory researchers are interested in the quantitative measurement of the correspondence between the objective properties of the stimulus and their subjective counterparts in the human cognitive system. The study of memory and psychophysics has developed independently, using separate methods of experimentation and analysis. The chapter presents the main hypotheses that have been suggested to account for the rather small body of empirical findings.
AB - This chapter provides an overview of memory psychophysics. Psychophysics is the science that explicates the functional relations between physical stimuli and the resulting sensory responses. Memory psychophysics, or mnemophysics, is the branch of psychophysics that treats the functional relations between physical stimuli and their remembered sensory responses. Memory psychophysics derives from the two branches of experimental psychology. Both psychophysicists and memory researchers are interested in the quantitative measurement of the correspondence between the objective properties of the stimulus and their subjective counterparts in the human cognitive system. The study of memory and psychophysics has developed independently, using separate methods of experimentation and analysis. The chapter presents the main hypotheses that have been suggested to account for the rather small body of empirical findings.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0166-4115(08)61784-7
DO - 10.1016/S0166-4115(08)61784-7
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SN - 0166-4115
VL - 92
SP - 441
EP - 513
JO - Advances in Psychology
JF - Advances in Psychology
IS - C
ER -