Measurement With Persons: Theory, Methods, and Implementation Areas

423 Pages·2011·4.237 MB·English

by  Birgitta Berglund, Giovanni B. Rossi, James T. Townsend, Leslie R. Pendrill

MEASUREMENT
WITH
PERSONS
SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY SERIES
Edited by Stephen W. Link, University of California, San Diego
and James T. Townsend, Indiana University
Measurement With Persons: Theory, Methods, and Implementation Areas edited
by Birgitta Berglund, Giovanni B. Rossi, James T. Townsend and Leslie R. Pendrill
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Gescheider, John H. Wright and Ronald T. Verrillo
Unified Social Cognition by Norman H. Anderson
Introduction to the Theories of Measurement and Meaningfulness and the Use of
Symmetry in Science by Louis Narens
Measurement and Representation of Sensations edited by Hans Colonius and
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Psychophysics Beyond Sensation edited by Christian Kaernbach, Erich Schroger,
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Empirical Direction in Design and Analysis by Norman H. Anderson
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Utility of Gains and Losses by R. Duncan Luce
Toward a New Behaviorism. The Case against Perceptual Reductionism by
William R. Uttal
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Recent Progress in Mathematical Psychology edited by Cornelia E. Dowling,
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MEASUREMENT
WITH
PERSONS
Theory, Methods, and Implementation Areas
Edited by
BIRGITTA BERGLUND
GIOVANNI B. ROSSI
JAMES T. TOWNSEND
LESLIE R. PENDRILL
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Measurements with persons : theory, methods, and implementation areas /
editors, Birgitta Berglund ... [et al.].
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1. Perception--Mathematical models. 2. Senses and sensation--Mathematical
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Contents
Preface ix
Contributors xi
1 Measurement across physical and behavioral sciences 1
Birgitta Berglund, Giovanni Battista Rossi, and Andrew Wallard
2 Measurement in psychology 27
Birgitta Berglund
3 Measurements of physical parameters in sensory science 51
Teresa Goodman
4 Meaningful and meaningless statements in epidemiology
and public health 75
Fred S. Roberts
5 Toward a probabilistic theory of measurement 97
Giovanni Battista Rossi
6 Multivariate measurements 125
Gerie W. A. M. van der Heijden and Ragne Emardson
7 The prospects for measurement in infinite-dimensional psychological
spaces: Modern notions for geometric person measurements in finite
and infinite dimensional spaces 143
James T. Townsend, Devin Burns, and Lei Pei
8 Psychophysical linguistics 175
Stephen Link
9 Mathematical foundations of Universal Fechnerian Scaling 185
Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov
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10 Neural networks and fuzzy systems 211
Christian Eitzinger and Wolfgang Heidl
11 Psychological measurement for sound description and evaluation 227
Patrick Susini, Guillaume Lemaitre, and Stephen McAdams
12 Nociception and pain in thermal skin sensitivity 255
Dieter Kleinböhl, Rupert Hölzl, and Jörg Trojan
13 Measurement-related issues in the investigation of active vision 281
Boris M. Velichkovsky,, Frans Cornelissen, Jan-Mark Geusebroek,
Sven-Thomas Graupner, Riitta Hari, Jan Bernard Marsman, Sergey A. Shevchik,
and Sebastian Pannasch
14 Electrical and functional brain imaging 301
Pasquale Anthony Della Rosa and Daniela Perani
15 Body language: Embodied perception of emotion 335
Charlotte B. A. Sinke,, Mariska E. Kret, and Beatrice de Gelder,
16 Risk assessment and decision making 353
Leslie R. Pendrill
Author Index 369
Subject Index 383
Preface
Measurement with persons involves human perception and interpretation for mea-
suring complex holistic quantities and qualities. These are perceived or created by
the human brain and mind. Providing the means for reproducible measurement
of parameters such as pleasure and pain has important implications in evaluat-
ing all kinds of products, services, and conditions. Progress in this area requires
the interlinking of related developments across a variety of disciplines, embracing
the physical, biological, psychological, and social sciences. Moreover, it faces an
ever-increasing demand for valid measurements as the basis for decision making.
A significant hurdle to surmount is the historical division that arose in the middle
of the twentieth century between physicists and psychologists. The two sides dis-
agreed strongly on the meaning of measurement and the possibility of “measuring”
sensory events. This led to parallel developments in measurement science within
the two separate camps. Both went on to generate remarkable results, but the lack of
communication between them prevented coherent and interactive progress.
This book inaugurates a new era for this subject. Here a large board of schol-
ars and scientists from physical, psychological, biological, and social sciences has
accepted the challenge of working together to reach a common understanding of
the theory of measurement and the methods. The aim is to provide what seems to
be the first book ever issued covering the topic of measurement with persons by
multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary approaches. That means that the complementary
aspects of general theory, measurement methods, instrumentation, and modeling are
treated together in an integral way by world-renowned scientists in the fields of psy-
chophysics and general psychology, measurement theory, metrology and instrumen-
tation, neurophysiology, engineering, biology, and chemistry. Such a comprehensive
approach is developed in general terms in the first part of the book and then demon-
strated in frontier implementations in the second part.
This (so far) unparalleled coordination effort has been possible thanks to the
European Framework Programme Seven, Coordination Action MINET: Measuring
the Impossible Network, chaired by Birgitta Berglund, which has provided the
opportunity, and funding from the European Commission (Contract no. 043297).
The book results from an International Training Course for senior scientists held in
June 2008 in Genova, Italy, and organized in the MINET environment. B. Berglund
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