Fechner's law

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Related to Fechner's law: Signal detection theory, Stevens power law, Weber Law

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Fechner's law - (psychophysics) the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to the logarithm of the stimulus intensity; based on early work by E. H. Weber

Weber-Fechner law

law of nature, law - a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics"

psychophysics - the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects

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Unification of psychophysical phenomena: The complete form of Fechner's law. Perception & Psychophysics.

Additive or multiplicative perceptual noise? Two equivalent forms of the ANCHOR model

The power law as a special case of Fechner's law. Perceptual & Motor Skills, 25(1), 51-52.

Extracting meaning from sound: nomic mappings, everyday listening, and perceiving object size from frequency

Dally, parents and clinicians (and teachers, therapists and grandparents) unknowingly apply Weber's Ratio, Fechner's Law and Steven's Magnitude Estimation and decide whether what they see is worth one, two or three eyebrow raises.