Psychophysics

Course content

Psychophysics, Fechner`s Law, Weber`s Law, Stephen`s Power Law. Methods of constant stimuli, limits, and adjustment, Discrimination and detection thresholds, Just noticeable difference (JND}, psychometric function, Signal Detection Theory. Forced-choice tasks, Non-threshold tasks, and Scaling. Fourier Analysis, Contrast Sensitivity Function, Michelson Contrast. Likelihood Principle, Bayesian Framework.