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OverviewEven in the age of Internet, when information and knowledge are just a click away, few probably know what is psychophysics and what is it for. Psychophysics can be romantically defined as the science that measures the soul, namely the sensory soul. Psychophysics estimates the sensibility and looks for the threshold, that ephemeral limit between the sensed and the not sensed, the perceived and the not perceived, the seen and the not seen. It is a challenging task, since this limit is like a butterfly twirling over a flowery meadow, and psychophysics is the tool aimed at measuring as exactly as possible the height of its flight. At the boundary between experimental psychology and sensory neuroscience, psychophysics is not confined within a theoretical framework, but has great importance also in the clinical setting: audiologists, ophthalmologists, optometrists, orthoptists as well as neuropsychiatrists make use of psychophysics in many of their diagnostic protocols. This book aims at describing the principles of this discipline in a simple yet rigorous form, so as to make psychophysics understandable to the broad audience of non-psychophysicists. And, why not, even to reveal its hidden charm... Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carlo AleciPublisher: EDP sciences Imprint: EDP sciences Weight: 0.354kg ISBN: 9782759825172ISBN 10: 2759825175 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 08 March 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationCarlo ALECI was born in 1969 in Turin. After specializing in Ophthalmology in 1997, Carlo obtained his Ph.D. degree in Ophthalmological Sciences at the University of Turin, where he is professor on contract of Strabology and Psychophysics of Vision since 2014. Ex-consultant at the Neuro-Ophthalmological Center of the University, his fields of interest are neuro-ophthalmology, visual psychophysics, and dyslexia. Author of several international papers and of the book Dyslexia: A Visual Approach, Carlo has developed tests aimed at evaluating the visuoperceptive alterations in the neuroophthalmological field. He is Editor-in-Chief of Neuro-Ophthalmology & Visual Neuroscience. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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