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Measuring the Soul

Psychophysics for Non-Psychophysicists

de Carlo Aleci (auteur)
mars 2021
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format 180 x 260 216 pages En stock
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Présentation

Even in the age of Internet, when information and knowledge are just a click away, few probably know what is psychophysics and what is it for.

Psychophysics can be romantically defined as the science that measures the soul, namely the sensory soul. Psychophysics estimates the sensibility and looks for the threshold, that ephemeral limit between the sensed and the not sensed, the perceived and the not perceived, the seen and the not seen. It is a challenging task, since this limit is like a butterfly twirling over a flowery meadow, and psychophysics is the tool aimed at measuring as exactly as possible the height of its flight.

At the boundary between experimental psychology and sensory neuroscience, psychophysics is not confined within a theoretical framework, but has great importance also in the clinical setting: audiologists, ophthalmologists, optometrists, orthoptists as well as neuropsychiatrists make use of psychophysics in many of their diagnostic protocols.

This book aims at describing the principles of this discipline in a simple yet rigorous form, so as to make psychophysics understandable to the broad audience of non-psychophysicists. And, why not, even to reveal its hidden charm...

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Livre papier

Caractéristiques

Langue(s) : Anglais

Public(s) : Recherche, Professionnels, Public élargi, Etudiants

Editeur : EDP Sciences & Science Press

Edition : 1ère édition

Collection : Current Natural Sciences

Publication : 8 mars 2021

EAN13 Livre papier : 9782759825172

EAN13 eBook [PDF] : 9782759825189

Intérieur : Couleur

Format (en mm) Livre papier : 180 x 260

Nombre de pages Livre papier : 216

Nombre de pages eBook [PDF] : 218

Poids (en grammes) : 500

Taille(s) : 7,6 Mo (PDF)

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