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Meaning of "psychophysics" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PSYCHOPHYSICS

psychophysics  [ˌsaɪkəʊˈfɪzɪks] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PSYCHOPHYSICS

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Psychophysics is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PSYCHOPHYSICS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Psychophysics

Psychophysics quantitatively investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they affect. Psychophysics has been described as "the scientific study of the relation between stimulus and sensation" or, more completely, as "the analysis of perceptual processes by studying the effect on a subject's experience or behaviour of systematically varying the properties of a stimulus along one or more physical dimensions". Psychophysics also refers to a general class of methods that can be applied to study a perceptual system. Modern applications rely heavily on threshold measurement, ideal observer analysis, and signal detection theory. Psychophysics has widespread and important practical applications. As just one example, in the study of digital signal processing, psychophysics has informed the development of models and methods of lossy compression. These models explain why humans perceive very little loss of signal quality when audio and video signals are formatted using lossy compression.

Definition of psychophysics in the English dictionary

The definition of psychophysics in the dictionary is the branch of psychology concerned with the relationship between physical stimuli and the effects they produce in the mind.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PSYCHOPHYSICS


astrophysics
ˌæstrəʊˈfɪzɪks
attophysics
ˈætəʊˌfɪzɪks
biophysics
ˌbaɪəʊˈfɪzɪks
cryophysics
ˌkraɪəʊˈfɪzɪks
geophysics
ˌdʒiːəʊˈfɪzɪks
macrophysics
ˌmækrəʊˈfɪzɪks
metaphysics
ˌmɛtəˈfɪzɪks
microphysics
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈfɪzɪks
nanophysics
ˈnænəʊˌfɪzɪks
pataphysics
ˈpætəˌfɪzɪks
petrophysics
ˌpetrəʊˈfɪzɪks
physics
ˈfɪzɪks

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PSYCHOPHYSICS

psychopathic
psychopathic disorder
psychopathic personality
psychopathically
psychopathist
psychopathological
psychopathologist
psychopathology
psychopathy
psychopharmacological
psychopharmacologist
psychopharmacology
psychophily
psychophysical
psychophysicist
psychophysiological
psychophysiologist
psychophysiology
psychopomp
psychoprophylaxis

WORDS THAT END LIKE PSYCHOPHYSICS

atomic physics
basics
classics
descriptive metaphysics
forensics
health physics
high-energy physics
kinesics
nuclear physics
particle physics
solid-state physics
the classics
theoretical physics
to get back to basics

Synonyms and antonyms of psychophysics in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «psychophysics» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PSYCHOPHYSICS

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The translations of psychophysics from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «psychophysics» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

心理物理学
1,325 millions of speakers

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psicofísica
570 millions of speakers

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psychophysics
510 millions of speakers

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psychophysics
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

علم النفس البدني
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

психофизика
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

psicofísica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

psychophysics
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

psychophysique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Psikofizik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Psychophysik
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

精神物理学
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

정신 물리학
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Psikofisika
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

psychophysics
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மனோ-உடலியல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सायकोफिझिक्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

psikofizik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

psicofisica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

psychofizyka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

психофізика
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

psihofizica
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ψυχοφυσική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

psigofisika
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

psykofysik
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

psychophysics
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of psychophysics

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PSYCHOPHYSICS»

The term «psychophysics» is quite widely used and occupies the 52.798 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PSYCHOPHYSICS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about psychophysics

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PSYCHOPHYSICS»

Discover the use of psychophysics in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to psychophysics and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Psychophysics: A Practical Introduction
This book is the first to combine into a single volume the principles underlying the science of psychophysical measurement and the practical tools necessary to analyze data from psychophysical experiments.
Frederick A.A. Kingdom, Nicolaas Prins, 2009
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Psychophysics: The Fundamentals
This third edition of a classic text which was first published in 1976 is the only comprehensive, up-to-date presentation of psychophysics currently available.
George A. Gescheider, 2013
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Handbook of Medical Imaging: Physics and psychophysics
This book examines x-ray imaging physics and reviews linear systems theory and its application to signal and noise propagation.
Jacob Beutel, Harold L. Kundel, Richard L. Van Metter, 2000
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Spatial Hearing: The Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization
This revised edition adds a new chapter that describes developments in such areas as auditory virtual reality (an important field of application that is based mainly on the physics of spatial hearing), binaural technology (modeling speech ...
Jens Blauert, 1997
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The Physics and Psychophysics of Music: An Introduction
This introductory text deals with the physical systems and biological processes that intervene in what we broadly call 'music.
Juan G. Roederer, 2008
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Human Psychophysics
The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of comprehen sive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern auditory research.
William A. Yost, Richard R. Fay, 2011
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Sensory Neuroscience: Four Laws of Psychophysics: Four Laws ...
This book will be particularly useful to auditory researchers, experimental psychologists, and behavioral neuroscientists.
Jozef J. Zwislocki, 2009
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Cognition, Information Processing, and Psychophysics: Basic ...
262), psychophysics was destined to be an "insignificant appendix to physiology. " If we want to celebrate Fechner and his work, we must not forget inner psychophysics. What did Fechner mean by "inner psychophysics"? What is the relation ...
Hans-Georg Geissler, Stephen W. Link, James T. Townsend, 2013
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Decision Making: A Psychophysics Application of Network Science
This invaluable book captures the proceedings of a workshop that brought together a group of distinguished scientists from a variety of disciplines to discuss how networking influences decision making.
Paolo Grigolini, Bruce J. West, 2011
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Visual Psychophysics: From Laboratory to Theory
A comprehensive treatment of the skills and techniques needed for visual psychophysics, from basic tools to sophisticated data analysis.
Zhong-Lin Lu, Barbara Dosher, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PSYCHOPHYSICS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term psychophysics is used in the context of the following news items.
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Meet Chef Watson, IBM's futuristic foodie robot
... compounds in food; and academic research into the smells and tastes that people find most pleasurable, an obscure field known as “hedonic psychophysics.”. «Washington Post, May 15»
2
IU researcher looks to Internet as new frontier in collecting data on …
That study looked at differences between Matlab's Psychophysics Toolbox -- one of the most popular software systems for psychological experiments -- and ... «IU Bloomington Newsroom, Apr 15»
3
Leslie Vosshall and Jean-Laurent Casanova elected to the National …
In addition, human odor perception research within her lab has explored olfactory psychophysics with genetic analysis in order to understand the mechanisms of ... «The Rockefeller University Newswire, Apr 15»
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Yusho's Brian Lhee Makes Dishes with IBM's Chef Watson at Vegas …
Watson started by learning Bon Appétit's 10,000 recipes and combines that with its understanding of food chemistry, hedonic psychophysics (the psychology of ... «Eater, Apr 15»
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Color of Light Influences Circadian Clock in Mammals, Scientists Say
“It has always been very hard to separate the change in color to the change in brightness but using new experimental tools and a psychophysics approach we ... «Sci-News.com, Apr 15»
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Ask an Academic: Professor Tim Bussey
No, seriously, it was interesting to see so many science articles on the topic, explaining the effect in terms of basic psychophysics, being shared around on social ... «Cambridge News, Mar 15»
7
Reassembling the self: the art of schizophrenia
A lot of work went into achieving this project, including interviewing people with schizophrenia, studying electrophysiology, visual psychophysics etc. and ... «The Mancunion, Feb 15»
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NIH funds IU optometrists using new innovations to improve …
... takes advances in neural modeling and visual psychophysics made in Swanson's lab and improvements in the diagnostic imaging of the retina made in Burns' ... «IU Bloomington Newsroom, Jan 15»
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Consumer Agency Launches Tool To Help You Find A Cheaper …
The phenomenon, impressively named the Weber-Fechner law of psychophysics, can make saving hundreds of dollars seem less worthwhile than saving $10. «NPR, Jan 15»
10
The rise of the geek artist
His installation Psychophysics Machines, presented in November at the 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art in Dubai, featured five five robotic ... «ArtsHub, Jan 15»

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