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Visual Scaling

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Part of the book series: Handbook of Sensory Physiology ((1536,volume 7 / 4))

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“Scaling” refers to a family of procedures that attempt to give quantitative descriptions of perceptual attributes. The first part of this chapter discusses the three main families of scaling procedures : confusability scaling, direct estimation, and multidimensional scaling. Several applications of these procedures are described in the second part : scaling of brightness, hue and saturation, and color differences are discussed in some detail, and brief mention is made of work on space and form perception.

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Krantz, D.H. (1972). Visual Scaling. In: Jameson, D., Hurvich, L.M. (eds) Visual Psychophysics. Handbook of Sensory Physiology, vol 7 / 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88658-4_26

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