ArticleTrends in cognitive sciences2019
Weber's Law: A Mechanistic Foundation after Two Centuries.
Article in Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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Abstract
Weber's law appears to be a universal principle describing how we discriminate between physical magnitudes. However, this law remained purely descriptive for nearly two centuries. A study by Pardo-Vazquez et al. finally provides a mechanistic explanation, revealing how both accuracy and reaction-time performance lawfully emerge during sensory discrimination tasks.
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