noun
- the branch of psychology that studies the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they produce
Usage: scientific; psychology
Examples
- The psychophysics laboratory measured how people perceive different levels of brightness.
- Her research in psychophysics focused on the relationship between sound intensity and loudness perception.
- Psychophysics helps us understand how the brain interprets sensory information.
- The professor explained how psychophysics bridges the gap between physics and psychology.
- Weber’s law is a fundamental principle in psychophysics.
- Students in the psychophysics course learned about threshold detection experiments.