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unusual facts about Psychophysics


Psychophysical

Psychophysics, the subdiscipline of psychology dealing with the relationship between physical stimuli and their subjective correlates, or percepts


Autostereogram

In 1979, Christopher Tyler of Smith-Kettlewell Institute, a student of Julesz and a visual psychophysicist, combined the theories behind single-image wallpaper stereograms and random-dot stereograms (the work of Julesz and Schilling) to create the first black-and-white "random-dot autostereogram" (also known as single-image random-dot stereogram) with the assistance of computer programmer Maureen Clarke using Apple II and BASIC.

Charles Honorton

Honorton was a research fellow at the Institute for Parapsychology Durham North Carolina from 1966–67, a research associate, then senior research associate, then Director of Research Division of Parapsychology and Psychophysics at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York from.

Donald K. Johnson Eye Centre

Research areas include: Molecular genetics of blinding eye diseases and brain disorders; Treatment, biophysics and psychophysics of glaucoma; Eye movement and control mechanisms; Neuronal damage; Retinal degeneration and diabetic retinopathy; Corneal disease

Munduruku people

Pierre Pica was instrumental (in a work done in collaboration with Stanislas Dehaene and Elizabeth Spelke) in revealing the psychophysics and linguistic properties of the Munduruku counting system to the Western world.

Prego

The flavors of the original sauces were created with the help of Howard Moskowitz, a practitioner in the field of psychophysics.

S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, the neuroscientist known for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics


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