Definition of psychophysics in English:
psychophysics
plural noun sʌɪkəʊˈfɪzɪksˌsaɪkoʊˈfɪzɪks
treated as singular The branch of psychology that deals with the relations between physical stimuli and mental phenomena.
Example sentencesExamples
- In psychophysics, 'ions traveling opposite to the plasma current’ are described as ‘counterpassing'.
- They used psychophysics to show that capsaicin (found in chillies) could produce practical oral analgesia in cancer patients with oral lesions.
- One such model that has had an enormous impact, not only in psychophysics but in many diverse areas of psychology, is Signal Detection Theory.
- I thought of biochemistry in our neighboring sciences and of psychophysics, and more recently of psychopharmacology, as examples of fruitful splitting and recombination in our own science.
- Working in psychophysics he became concerned with the biases that occur when subjective assessments are made.
Definition of psychophysics in US English:
psychophysics
plural nounˌsīkōˈfiziksˌsaɪkoʊˈfɪzɪks
treated as singular The branch of psychology that deals with the relationships between physical stimuli and mental phenomena.
Example sentencesExamples
- In psychophysics, 'ions traveling opposite to the plasma current’ are described as ‘counterpassing'.
- They used psychophysics to show that capsaicin (found in chillies) could produce practical oral analgesia in cancer patients with oral lesions.
- One such model that has had an enormous impact, not only in psychophysics but in many diverse areas of psychology, is Signal Detection Theory.
- I thought of biochemistry in our neighboring sciences and of psychophysics, and more recently of psychopharmacology, as examples of fruitful splitting and recombination in our own science.
- Working in psychophysics he became concerned with the biases that occur when subjective assessments are made.