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MEASUREMENT WITH PERSONS SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY SERIES Edited by Stephen W. Link, University of California, San Diego and James T. Townsend, Indiana University Measurement With Persons: Theory, Methods, and Implementation Areas edited by Birgitta Berglund, Giovanni B. Rossi, James T. Townsend and Leslie R. Pendrill Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System by George A. Gescheider, John H. Wright and Ronald T. Verrillo Unified Social Cognition by Norman H. Anderson Introduction to the Theories of Measurement and Meaningfulness and the Use of Symmetry in Science by Louis Narens Measurement and Representation of Sensations edited by Hans Colonius and Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov Psychophysics Beyond Sensation edited by Christian Kaernbach, Erich Schroger, and Hermann Muller Theories of Meaningfulness by Louis Narens Empirical Direction in Design and Analysis by Norman H. Anderson Computational, Geometric, and Process Perspectives on Facial Cognition edited by Michael J. 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Townsend The Wave Theory of Difference and Similarity by Stephen W. Link MEASUREMENT WITH PERSONS Theory, Methods, and Implementation Areas Edited by BIRGITTA BERGLUND GIOVANNI B. ROSSI JAMES T. TOWNSEND LESLIE R. PENDRILL Psychology Press New York London Psychology Press Psychology Press Taylor & Francis Group Taylor & Francis Group 711 Third Avenue 27 Church Road New York, NY 10017 Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA © 2012 by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC Psychology Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 International Standard Book Number: 978-1-84872-939-1 (Hardback) For permission to photocopy or use material electronically from this work, please access www. copyright.com (http://www.copyright.com/) or contact the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400. CCC is a not-for-profit organiza- tion that provides licenses and registration for a variety of users. For organizations that have been granted a photocopy license by the CCC, a separate system of payment has been arranged. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging‑in‑Publication Data Measurements with persons : theory, methods, and implementation areas / editors, Birgitta Berglund ... [et al.]. p. cm. -- (Scientific psychology series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-84872-939-1 (hardback) 1. Perception--Mathematical models. 2. Senses and sensation--Mathematical models. 3. Human information processing--Mathematical models. I. Berglund, Birgitta. II. Title. III. Series. BF311.M4325 2011 153.7028’7--dc22 2011008495 Visit the Taylor & Francis Web site at http://www.taylorandfrancis.com and the Psychology Press Web site at http://www.psypress.com on ne voit bien qu’avec le coeur l’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince Contents Preface ix Contributors xi 1 Measurement across physical and behavioral sciences 1 Birgitta Berglund, Giovanni Battista Rossi, and Andrew Wallard 2 Measurement in psychology 27 Birgitta Berglund 3 Measurements of physical parameters in sensory science 51 Teresa Goodman 4 Meaningful and meaningless statements in epidemiology and public health 75 Fred S. Roberts 5 Toward a probabilistic theory of measurement 97 Giovanni Battista Rossi 6 Multivariate measurements 125 Gerie W. A. M. van der Heijden and Ragne Emardson 7 The prospects for measurement in infinite-dimensional psychological spaces: Modern notions for geometric person measurements in finite and infinite dimensional spaces 143 James T. Townsend, Devin Burns, and Lei Pei 8 Psychophysical linguistics 175 Stephen Link 9 Mathematical foundations of Universal Fechnerian Scaling 185 Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov vii viii Contents 10 Neural networks and fuzzy systems 211 Christian Eitzinger and Wolfgang Heidl 11 Psychological measurement for sound description and evaluation 227 Patrick Susini, Guillaume Lemaitre, and Stephen McAdams 12 Nociception and pain in thermal skin sensitivity 255 Dieter Kleinböhl, Rupert Hölzl, and Jörg Trojan 13 Measurement-related issues in the investigation of active vision 281 Boris M. Velichkovsky,, Frans Cornelissen, Jan-Mark Geusebroek, Sven-Thomas Graupner, Riitta Hari, Jan Bernard Marsman, Sergey A. Shevchik, and Sebastian Pannasch 14 Electrical and functional brain imaging 301 Pasquale Anthony Della Rosa and Daniela Perani 15 Body language: Embodied perception of emotion 335 Charlotte B. A. Sinke,, Mariska E. Kret, and Beatrice de Gelder, 16 Risk assessment and decision making 353 Leslie R. Pendrill Author Index 369 Subject Index 383 Preface Measurement with persons involves human perception and interpretation for mea- suring complex holistic quantities and qualities. These are perceived or created by the human brain and mind. Providing the means for reproducible measurement of parameters such as pleasure and pain has important implications in evaluat- ing all kinds of products, services, and conditions. Progress in this area requires the interlinking of related developments across a variety of disciplines, embracing the physical, biological, psychological, and social sciences. Moreover, it faces an ever-increasing demand for valid measurements as the basis for decision making. A significant hurdle to surmount is the historical division that arose in the middle of the twentieth century between physicists and psychologists. The two sides dis- agreed strongly on the meaning of measurement and the possibility of “measuring” sensory events. This led to parallel developments in measurement science within the two separate camps. Both went on to generate remarkable results, but the lack of communication between them prevented coherent and interactive progress. This book inaugurates a new era for this subject. Here a large board of schol- ars and scientists from physical, psychological, biological, and social sciences has accepted the challenge of working together to reach a common understanding of the theory of measurement and the methods. The aim is to provide what seems to be the first book ever issued covering the topic of measurement with persons by multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary approaches. That means that the complementary aspects of general theory, measurement methods, instrumentation, and modeling are treated together in an integral way by world-renowned scientists in the fields of psy- chophysics and general psychology, measurement theory, metrology and instrumen- tation, neurophysiology, engineering, biology, and chemistry. Such a comprehensive approach is developed in general terms in the first part of the book and then demon- strated in frontier implementations in the second part. This (so far) unparalleled coordination effort has been possible thanks to the European Framework Programme Seven, Coordination Action MINET: Measuring the Impossible Network, chaired by Birgitta Berglund, which has provided the opportunity, and funding from the European Commission (Contract no. 043297). The book results from an International Training Course for senior scientists held in June 2008 in Genova, Italy, and organized in the MINET environment. B. Berglund ix
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