1119 Fundamentals of Psychophysics
Tuesday 12-14 ETH ML H37.1
Adrian Schwaninger & Marino Menozzi Description
In this lecture, which is a cooperation between the University and the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) of Zurich, selected psychophysical methods are presented and applied in exercises. Psychophysics can be seen historically as the beginning of experimental psychology and it provides nowadays an interdisciplinary applied inventory of psychophysical methods for measuring sensory thresholds and scaling. This lecture is part of the Ergänzungs- and Vertiefungsprogramm in General Psychology and it takes place at the ETH main building, room HG E1.2.
Literature: Gescheider, G. A. (1997). Psychophysics: The fundamentals. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Materials
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Schedule and slides
| No. | Date | Topic | Slides |
| 1 | 03.04.01 | Introduction, philosophical and historical context (Schwaninger) | PP01.pdf |
| 2 | 10.04.01 | Classical methods I (Menozzi) | PP02.pdf |
| 3 | 17.04.01 | Classical methods II (Schwaninger) | PP03.pdf |
| 4 | 24.04.01 | Psychophysical scaling I (Schwaninger) | PP04.pdf PP04.xls |
| 01.05.01 | No lecture | ||
| 5 | 08.05.01 | Psychophysical scaling II (Schwaninger) | PP05.pdf |
| 15.05.01 | No lecture | ||
| 6 | 22.05.01 | Psychophysical scaling III (Schwaninger) | PP06.pdf |
| 7 | 29.05.01 | Classical psychophysical theory (Menozzi) | PP07.pdf |
| 8 | 05.06.01 | Theory of signal detection I (Menozzi) | PP08.pdf |
| 9 | 12.06.01 | Theory of signal detection II (Schwaninger) | PP09.pdf PP09.xls |
| 10 | 19.06.01 | Theory of signal detection III (Näpflin) | PP10.pdf |
| 11 | 26.06.01 | Adaptive methods (Menozzi) | PP11.pdf |
| 12 | 03.07.01 | Applications (Menozzi) | PP12.pdf |