Fechner's psychophysical law as a special case of Stevens' three-parameter power law

Percept Mot Skills. 1992 Dec;75(3 Pt 2):1205-6. doi: 10.2466/pms.1992.75.3f.1205.

Abstract

This paper shows that Fechner's law of psychophysics is a special case of Stevens' power law with three parameters. Consequently, at least as good over-all fit to experimental data is always obtained, at the cost of one additional parameter, by using Stevens' power law involving an extra parameter added to the response variable.

MeSH terms

  • Mathematics
  • Psychophysics*