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HOW PROTHETIC IS THE CONTINUUM OF SMELL?: A further comment on the relation between magnitude and category scales
Author(s) -
Eisler Hannes
Publication year - 1963
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.1467-9450.1963.tb01304.x
Subject(s) - loudness , psychology , magnitude (astronomy) , limiting , cognitive psychology , physics , acoustics , astrophysics , mechanical engineering , engineering
The relation K =αlog( ψ + q / k ) +β between category scale K and magnitude scale ψ found in previous experiments on loudness and softness of white noise was confirmed for smell data, too. The small increase in variability (SDs) of judgments with magnitude for smell as compared with loudness and softness suggests the substitution of the prothetic‐metathetic dichotomy with a quantifiable feature, protheticness, with metathetic continua as the limiting case.