Talk:Psychophysics

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[edit] Ibn al-Haytham

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Some consider Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen) to be the founder of psychophysics.[1] His Book of Optics, written in the 1010s, pioneered the psychology of visual perception and argued that vision occurs in the brain, rather than the eyes.

...because I have now read this paper and the arguments presented in it for Ibn al-Haytham being the true "founder" of psychophysics are pretty weak. In fact, they're non-existant. Khaleefa simply cites somebody else (Taha, 1990) on this point. I haven't read that paper yet, but Khaleefa's paper is unconvincing and should be considered a secondary source. Famousdog 21:17, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Hmmmm. It turns out that Zaha (1990) is a book review and not a research article. It is unavailable online, so I can't investigate any further at present. Anybody else? Famousdog 01:31, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Well, perhaps not much of a contribution, but having read Book of Optics, I'm inclined to agree that Alhazen's work is psychophysics. If we should call him a 'founder' if no one in the West knew who he was is another question though... 134.58.0.93 (talk) 19:18, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Nah. It's optics with some pre-psychology psychology thrown in. Psychophysics is quite a different discipline. What makes you think any of the material in BoO is psychophysics? Famousdog (talk) 01:59, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Method of propellers

I've never heard of it. Has anybody else? Can we get a citation? Considering this section says that "it works best with complex stimuli", does it even count as a psychophysical method??? Famousdog 13:02, 26 October 2007 (UTC)