Measuring the Soul : Psychophysics for Non-Psychophysicists.

Intro -- Measuring the Soul -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Adequate and Inadequate Stimuli -- The Threshold -- Absolute and Difference Threshold -- Weber's, Fechner's and Stevens' Laws -- The Psychometric Function -- Detection and Discrimination Threshold -- Response Models -- Yes/No Response Model [Y/N] -- Alternative Forced Choice Model [AFC] -- Target Probability in Y/N and AFC Response Models -- Alternative Unforced Choice Response Model (AUC: Kaernbach, 2001) -- Modified AUC (Klein, 2001) -- False-Negative and False-Positive Errors (Lapse and Guess Rate) -- Psychophysical Procedures -- Nonadaptive Psychophysical Procedures: the Method of Constant Stimuli -- Nonadaptive Psychophysical Procedures: theMethod of Limits and the Method of Adjustment -- Adaptive Psychophysical Procedures -- Nonparametric Adaptive Psychophysical Procedures -- Truncated Staircase Method (Simple Up-down Method: Dixon and Mood, 1948 -- von Békésy, 1960 -- Cornsweet, 1962) -- Transformed Up-Down Staircase Method (Up-down Transformed Response, UDTR: Wetherill and Levitt, 1965 -- Levitt, 1970) -- Forced-Choice Tracking (Zwislocki et al., 1958) -- Non-Parametric Up-down Staircase Method (Derman, 1957) -- Weighted Up-down Method (Kaernbach, 1991) -- Stochastic Approximation (Robbins and Monro,1951) -- Accelerated Stochastic Approximation (Kesten, 1958) -- Block Up-down Temporal Interval Forced Choice (BUDTIF: Campbell and Lasky, 1968) -- Parameter Estimation by Sequential Testing (PEST: Taylor and Creelman, 1967) -- A More Virulent PEST (Findlay, 1978) -- Binary Search and Modified Binary Search (MOBS: Tyrrell and Owens, 1988) -- Parametric Adaptive Psychophysical Procedures -- The Maximum Likelihood Estimation [MLE] -- Psychophysical Procedures Based on MLE: The Best PEST (Pentland, 1980 -- Lieberman and Pentland, 1982).

The MLE Simplified Approximation of Emerson (Emerson, 1984) -- Bayesian Psychophysical Procedures -- Quick Estimation by Sequential Testing (QUEST: Watson and Pelli, 1979, 1983) -- ZEST (Zippy Estimation of Sequential Testing:King-Smith et al., 1994) -- The Minimum Variance Method (King-Smith,1984 -- King-Smith et al., 1994) -- The Ideal Procedure (IDEAL) or Behemothic Estimation of Sequential Testing (BEST: Pelli, 1987 -- Sims and Pelli, 1987) -- YAAP ("Yet Another Adaptive Procedure": Treutwein, 1997) -- The Step Method (Simpson, 1989) -- MUEST (Snoeren and Puts, 1997) -- Adaptive Psychophysical Procedures for the Estimate of the Slope -- Adaptive Probit Estimation (APE: Watt and Andrews, 1981) -- Hall's Hybrid Procedure (Hall, 1981) -- The Simulated Staircase Technique of Leek, Hanna and Marshall (Leek et al., 1992) -- The Adaptive Threshold and Slope Estimation (ATASE: Kaernbach, 2001b) -- Modified ZEST (King-Smith and Rose, 1997) -- The Ψ Method (Kontsevich and Tyler, 1999) -- The Sweet Point-Based MLE Procedure of Shen and Richards (2012) -- Multidimensional Adaptive Testing -- The Functional Adaptive Sequential Testing (FAST: Vul et al., 2010) -- The Quick CSF Method (qCSF: Lesmes et al., 2010) -- The Quick TvC Method (Lesmes et al., 2006) -- The MEEE Method of Cobo-Lewis for Performance Categorization -- What Makes a Psychophysical Technique a Good Psychophysical Technique? -- Assessing the Stability of the Psychometric Function -- Assessing the Goodness-of-Fit -- What is the Best Psychophysical Technique? -- AFC or Y/N: Which is a Better Response Model? -- Subjective Criterion in Y/N and Bias in n-AFC Response Model -- Drawbacks of the n-AFC Response Models -- Drawbacks of the Y/N Response Model -- Spatial or Temporal AFC? How Many Forced Choices? -- What is the Best Psychophysical Procedure? -- Nonadaptive vs. Adaptive Procedures.

Adaptive Nonparametric Procedures:Variable vs. Fixed Step Size -- Adaptive Nonparametric vs. Parametric Procedures -- Adaptive Parametric Procedures -- Considerations on the Staircase Procedures with Fixed Step Size: The Optimal Setup -- Drawbacks of the Maximum Likelihood Estimation -- Drawback of the Bayesian Procedures -- Introduction to the Signal Detection Theory (SDT) -- SDT and the ROC Curve in Y/N and 2AFC Response Models -- The Single-Interval Adjustment Matrix Procedure (SIAM: Kaernbach, 1990) -- Suprathreshold Psychophysics -- Procedures Based on Magnitude Scaling: Category Scaling -- Procedures Based on Magnitude Estimation -- Procedures Based on Reaction Time -- Brief Outline of Comparative Psychophysics -- Afterword The Inverse Problem of Perception -- Appendix I Logistic and Weibull Distribution -- Appendix II The Maximum Likelihood Estimation -- Appendix III Probit Analysis -- Appendix IV About Bayes' Theorem and Bayesian Statistics -- References -- Index.

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