Chapter 13 What Makes a Psychophysical Technique a Good Psychophysical Technique?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Chapter 1 Adequate and Inadequate Stimuli 1
6. Chapter 2 The Threshold 3
7. Chapter 3 The Psychometric Function 9
8. Chapter 4 Detection and Discrimination Threshold 17
9. Chapter 5 Response Models 21
10. Chapter 6 False-Negative and False-Positive Errors (Lapse and Guess Rate) 31
11. Chapter 7 Psychophysical Procedures 35
12. Chapter 8 Adaptive Psychophysical Procedures 41
13. Chapter 9 Nonparametric Adaptive Psychophysical Procedures 45
14. Chapter 10 Parametric Adaptive Psychophysical Procedures 69
15. Chapter 11 Adaptive Psychophysical Procedures for the Estimate of the Slope 87
16. Chapter 12 Multidimensional Adaptive Testing 113
17. Chapter 13 What Makes a Psychophysical Technique a Good Psychophysical Technique? 127
18. Chapter 14 What is the Best Psychophysical Technique? 137
19. Chapter 15 Introduction to the Signal Detection Theory (SDT) 155
20. Chapter 16 Suprathreshold Psychophysics 169
21. Chapter 17 Brief Outline of Comparative Psychophysics 173
22. Afterword The Inverse Problem of Perception 175
23. Appendix I Logistic and Weibull Distribution 179
24. Appendix II The Maximum Likelihood Estimation 181
25. Appendix III Probit Analysis 185
26. Appendix IV About Bayes’ Theorem and Bayesian Statistics 189
27. References 195
28. Index 201