On the interpretation of the Exponent in the "Near-Miss-to-Weber's Law"

✍ Scribed by J.-Cl. Falmagne

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 164 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-2496
• DOI: 10.1006/jmps.1994.1035

✦ Synopsis

In the near-miss-to-Weber's-Law, the exponent is usually regarded to be a constant. The experimental evidence for this constancy is slight. It is shown that if this exponent is allowed to vary as a function of the discrimination criterion (\pi), then, under very general conditions, either it is indeed a constant function of (\pi) or it takes an exponential form leading to an interesting invariance property. (C) 1994 Academic Press, Inc.