Prothetic Dimensions: How Our Senses Measure the World
Introduction to Prothetic Dimensions in Psychophysics The term Prothetic, within the specialized vocabulary of psychophysics and sensory psychology, serves as an adjective used to describe a fundamental dimension of sensory experience characterized by variations in magnitude or quantity, but crucially, not in fundamental quality. This classification system, largely popularized by S.S. Stevens’ work on psychophysical […]