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This work examines the basis for measurement - how to measure what we measure and the meaning of what we measure. The text suggests that empiricalness can be intersected with any other concepts to produce "meaningful and empirical relations" and "empirical laws".

With an emphasis on developments taking place in Germany during the nineteenth century, this book provides in-depth examinations of the key contributions made by the pioneers of scientific psychology. Their works brought measurement and mathematics into the study of the mind.Through unique analysis of measurement theory by Whewell, mathematical developments by Gauss, and theories of mental processes developed by Herbart, Weber, Fechner, Helmholtz, Müller, Delboeuf and others, this volume maps the beliefs, discoveries, and interactions that constitute the very origins of psychophysics and its offspring Experimental Psychology. Murray and Link expertly combine nuanced understanding of linguistic and historic factors to identify theoretical approaches to relating physicalintensities and psychological magnitudes. With an eye to interactions and influences on future work in the field, the volume illustrates the important legacy that mathematical developments in the nineteenth century have for twentieth and twenty-first century psychologists.This detailed and engaging account fills a deep gap in the history of psychology. The Creation of Scientific Psychology will appeal to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of history of psychology, psychophysics, scientific, and mathematical psychology.

In this two volume festschrift, contributors explore the theoretical developments (Volume I) and applications (Volume II) in traditional cognitive psychology domains, and model other areas of human performance that benefit from rigorous mathematical approaches. It brings together former classmates, students and colleagues of Dr. James T. Townsend, a pioneering researcher in the field since the early 1960s, to provide a current overview of mathematical modeling in psychology. TownsendΓÇÖs research critically emphasized a need for rigor in the practice of cognitive modeling, and for providing mathematical definition and structure to ill-defined psychological topics. The research captured demonstrates how the interplay of theory and application, bridged by rigorous mathematics, can move cognitive modeling forward.

 Invariances in Human Information Processing examines and identifies processing universals and how they are implemented in elementary judgemental processes. This edited collection offers evidence that these universals can be extracted and identified from observing law-like principles in perception, cognition, and action. Addressing memory operations, development, and conceptual learning, this book considers basic and complex meso- and makro-stages of information processing. Chapter authors provide theoretical accounts of cognitive processing that may offer tools for identification of functional components in brain activity in cognitive neuroscience

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In this two volume festschrift, contributors explore the theoretical developments (Volume I) and applications (Volume II) in traditional cognitive psychology domains, and model other areas of human performance that benefit from rigorous mathematical approaches. It brings together former classmates, students and colleagues of Dr. James T. Townsend to provide a current overview of mathematical modeling in psychology.

This book examines the question--are mental processes accessible-- within the context of reviewing the past, present, and desirable future of behaviorism.

This volume addresses the relatively underexplored methodology of localist (as opposed to distributed) connectionist modeling of cognitive processes. It will interest experimental psychologists and cognitive scientists, both theoretical and applied.

This volume brings together outstanding researchers from around the world whose mathematical psychological approach adds rigor and specificity to our models of behavioral phenomena. For experimental psychologists, particularly mathematical psychologists.

This new monograph presents Dr. Luce's current understanding of the behavioral properties people exhibit (or Should exhibit) when they make selections among alternatives and how these properties lead to numerical reprentations of those preferences.

Measurement and Representation of Sensations offers a glimpse into the most sophisticated current mathematical approaches to psychophysical problems. In this book, editors Hans Colonius and Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov, top scholars in the field, present

This book examines the basis for measurement- how to measure what we measure and the meaning of what we measure. It is expected to appeal to those interested in measurement in the fields of psych, econ, med, edu, soc, & other applied social sciences.

Presents Anderson's cumulative progress in unified social psychology. This book shows how these laws apply to topics in social and personality psychology such as person cognition, attitudes, moral cognition, group dynamics, and self-cognition. This work broadens the appreciation of Anderson's treatment of psychological processes.

This book is designed to be an introduction to the theories of measurement and meaningfulness, and not a comprehensive study of those topics. A major theme of this book is the psychophysical measurement of subjective intensity. This has been a subject of intense interest in psychology from the very beginning of experimental psychology. And from that beginning to the present day, it has continuously generated major controversies involving measurement and meaningfulness.

This volume offers an overview of localist connectionism. Localist connectionism provides a means of evolving from verbal-boxological models of human cognition to computer-implemented algorithmic models.

A comprehensive review of the applications of a variety of formal techniques to questions in facial perception and memory for cognitive psychologists and scientists.

The subjects covered in this work include: quantitative models of perceiving and remembering faces; the perfect Gestalt; face spaces and other aspects of face perception; predicting similarity ratings to faces using physical descriptions; and the role of category specific processes.

This work examines the behavioural properties people exhibit (or should exhibit) when they make selections among alternatives, and how these properties lead to numerical representations of those preferences. It includes axiomatic theoretical formulations.

This text examines the scientific basis of reductionist approaches to understanding visual perception. The author considers the "misdirection" of efforts to explain perceptual and other mental functions in terms of internal cognitive mechanisms, formal models or the brain's neural structures.

This volume examines the question - are mental processes accessible - within the context of reviewing the past, present and desirable future of behaviourism.

Addresses the question of whether sensory channels, similar to those operate in vision and audition, also operate in the sense of touch. Based on the results of psychophysical and neurophysiological experimentation, this title makes a case that channels operate in the processing of mechanical stimulation of the sensitive glabrous skin of the hand.

Offers a glimpse into the most sophisticated mathematical approaches to psychophysical problems. This book presents a broad spectrum of approaches and techniques to classical problems in psychophysics at different levels of stimulus complexity.

With an emphasis on developments taking place in Germany during the nineteenth century, this book provides in-depth examinations of the key contributions made by the pioneers of scientific psychology. Their works brought measurement and mathematics into the study of the mind.

This volume presents a series of studies that expand laws, invariants and principles of psychophysics beyond its classical domain of sensation. Appropriate for audiences in mathematical psych, psychophysics, sensation/perception, AI and cog. psych.