| Description |
xiii, 408 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
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Scientific psychology series |
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Scientific psychology series.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 13.Measurement-related issues in the investigation of active vision / Sebastian Pannasch -- 14.Electrical and functional brain imaging / Daniela Perani -- 15.Body language: Embodied perception of emotion / Beatrice de Gelder -- 16.Risk assessment and decision making / Leslie R. Pendrill |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Measurement across physical and behavioral sciences / Andrew Wallard -- 2.Measurement in psychology / Birgitta Berglund -- 3.Measurements of physical parameters in sensory science / Teresa Goodman -- 4.Meaningful and meaningless statements in epidemiology and public health / Fred S. Roberts -- 5.Toward a probabilistic theory of measurement / Giovanni Battista Rossi -- 6.Multivariate measurements / Ragne Emardson -- 7.The prospects for measurement in infinite-dimensional psychological spaces: Modern notions for geometric person measurements in finite and infinite dimensional spaces / Lei Pei -- 8.Psychophysical linguistics / Stephen Link -- 9.Mathematical foundations of Universal Fechnerian Scaling / Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov -- 10.Neural networks and fuzzy systems / Wolfgang Heidl -- 11.Psychological measurement for sound description and evaluation / Stephen McAdams -- 12.Nociception and pain in thermal skin sensitivity / Jorg Trojan -- |
| Summary |
"Measurements with persons are those in which human perception and interpretation are used for measuring complex, holistic quantities and qualities. Providing reproducible measurement of parameters for things such as pleasure and pain has important implications in evaluating products, services, and conditions. Progress in this area requires the interlinking of related developments across a variety of disciplines, embracing the physical, biological, psychological, and social sciences. Physicists and psychologists have disagreed strongly on the meaning of measurement and the possibility of "measuring" sensory events. This led to parallel developments in measurement science within the two separate camps. Both went on to generate remarkable results, but the lack of communication between them prevented coherent and interactive progress. This book's aim is to cover the topic of measurement with persons by multi- and interdisciplinary approaches, integrating the complementary aspects of general theory, measurement methods, instrumentation and modeling with the fields of psychophysics and general psychology, measurement theory, metrology and instrumentation, neurophysiology, engineering, biology, and chemistry. In the first part, generic theoretical and methodological issues are treated, including the conceptual basis of measurement in the various fields involved, the development of formal, representational and probabilistic, theories, the approach to experimentation and the theories, models and methods for multifaceted problems. In the second part, several implementation areas are presented, including sound, visual and skin perception, functional brain imagining, body language and emotions, and, finally, the use of measurements in decision making"--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"The book results from an International Training Course for senior scientists held in June 2008 in Genova, Italy"--P. ix |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Also available in print edition |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Subject |
Human information processing -- Mathematical models.
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Perception -- Mathematical models.
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Senses and sensation -- Mathematical models.
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| Author |
Berglund, Birgitta.
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| LC no. |
2011008495 |
| ISBN |
1848729391 (hardback) |
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9781848729391 (hardback) |
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