psychophysics
noun
the branch of psychology that deals with the relationships between physical stimuli and resulting sensations and mental states.
psychophysicist
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a word derived from
psychophysics.
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During Bartoshuk's "whole-mouth" test, when I rinsed with the diluted solutions, I wore headphones and was asked to rate the strength of sound tones administered intermittently by Dr. Lawrence E. Marks, an auditory psychophysicist.
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