Occupation or Discipline
psychophysics Audio
psy·cho·phys·ics [ sahy-koh-fiz-iks ]
Subclass of:
Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures; Behavioral Sciences
Definitions related to psychophysics:
  • The science dealing with the correlation of the physical characteristics of a stimulus, e.g., frequency or intensity, with the response to the stimulus, in order to assess the psychologic factors involved in the relationship.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • The study of the relationship between mental and physical phenomena; e.g., sound volume and loudness, or light intensity and brightness.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Psychophysics, study of quantitative relations between psychological events and physical events or, more specifically, between sensations and the stimuli that produce them. Physical science permits, at least for some of the senses, accurate measurement on a physical scale of the magnitude of a...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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