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ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEPT AND MEMORY; A PSYCHOPHYSICAL APPROACH
Author(s) -
Björkman M.,
Lundberg I.,
Tärnblom S.
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1960.tb01292.x
Subject(s) - percept , psychology , psychophysics , perception , power function , function (biology) , cognitive psychology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , neuroscience , evolutionary biology , biology
(1) It is suggested that psychophysics should extend its scope to include also a continuum of memory magnitudes. (2) The main problem of the paper is to investigate the intersubjective equation ś=c 2 s n 2 where s denotes memory magnitude and s perceptual magnitude. (3) Certain generalizations of the method of ratio estimation and ratio production, which are necessary for determining the parameters of the intersubjective equation, are considered. (4) Three experiments are reported. In all three experiments n 2 is somewhat larger than unity and shows very little variation from experiment to experiment. The other parameter c 2 is consistently below unity. (5) The power function seems to be an adequate description of the relationship between memory and percept.