Abstract
Thirteen families of psychophysical power functions from the auditory, visual, proprioceptive, warmth, and cold modalities, are shown to have the property that the members of each family intersect at a common point. In some cases this point corresponds to a very strong stimulus level that approximates the threshold of pain and maybe the ceiling level for the modality.
This research was supported by Grant AFOSR 70-1950 from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
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Stevens, J.C. (1974). Families of Converging Power Functions in Psychophysics. In: Moskowitz, H.R., Scharf, B., Stevens, J.C. (eds) Sensation and Measurement. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2245-3_14
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