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Table of contents (41 chapters)
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Psychophysics, Measurement, Sensory Physiology
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We planned this book as a Festschrift for Smitty Stevens because we thought he might be retiring around 1974, although we knew very well that only death or deep illness would stop Smitty from doing science. Death came suddenly, unexpectedly - after a full day of skiing at Vail, Colorado on the annual trip with wife Didi to the Winter Conference on Brain Research. Smitty liked winter conferences near ski resorts and often tried to get us other psychophysicists to organize one. Every person is unique. Smitty would have said it's mainly because each of us has so many genes that two combinations just alike would be well-nigh impossible. But most of us strive in many ways to be like others, and to abide by the norms (some smaller number try even harder to be unlike other people); as a result many persons seem to lose their uniqueness, their individuality. Not Smitty. He tried neither to be like others nor to be different. He took himself as he found himself, and ascribed peculiarities, strengths, and weaknesses to his pioneering Utah forebears, in whom he took much pride. His was the true and right nonconformity. He approached each task, each problem, ready to grapple with the facts and set them into meaningful order. And if the answer he came up with was different from everyone else's, well that was too bad.
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Book Title: Sensation and Measurement
Book Subtitle: Papers in Honor of S. S. Stevens
Editors: Howard R. Moskowitz, Bertram Scharf, Joseph C. Stevens
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2245-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company Dordrecht, Holland 1974
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0474-0Published: 31 October 1974
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-2247-7Published: 12 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2245-3Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 470