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Categories: Perception, Psychoacoustics, Mathematical psychology, Behavioral concepts, Power laws

Stevens' law power law Stevens' power law Stevens's power law Steven's law

(psychophysics) the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to a power of the stimulus intensity WordNet 3.0

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(psychophysics) the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to a power of the stimulus intensity WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Stevens' power law is an empirical relationship in psychophysics between an increased intensity or strength in a physical stimulus and the perceived magnitude increase in the sensation created by the stimulus. Wikipedia

A psychophysical theory Wikipedia Disambiguation

empirical relationship in psychophysics between actual and perceived changed intensity of stimulus Wikidata

A mathematical relationship in which the magnitude of something is proportional to a fixed power of the magnitude of something else (i.e. the relationship takes the form f(x) = a.xk). Wiktionary

Mathematical relationship. Wiktionary (translation)

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Stevens' law, power law, Stevens' power law