scholarly journals Stimulus context and absolute magnitude estimation: A study of individual differences

1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
George A. Gescheider ◽  
Barbara A. Hughson
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Magnitude Estimation ◽  
Absolute Magnitude ◽  
Stimulus Context

scholarly journals Pervasiveness and magnitude of context effects: Evidence for the relativity of absolute magnitude estimation

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 551-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh J. Foley ◽  
David V. Cross ◽  
Jennifer A. O’reilly
Keyword(s):  
Magnitude Estimation ◽  
Context Effects ◽  
Absolute Magnitude

Individual Differences in the Perception of Entrenchment of Multiword Units

2010 ◽  
Vol 84-85 ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
Véronique Verhagen ◽  
Ad Backus
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Magnitude Estimation ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Estimation Task ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
Linguistic Representations ◽  
Multiword Units ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Factor Frequency

While for a long time words and grammatical rules were regarded as the basic units in language, it has become increasingly clear that we have a much more varied set of units at our disposal, including multiword chunks. How such chunks are represented, which factors contribute to their entrenchment as units and to what extent this differs from person to person are questions that require investigation. In this paper we report on the results of a magnitude estimation task investigating variation in entrenchment, both between units and across individuals. Interesting discrepancies were found between corpus frequencies and the participants' assessments of unit status, as well as substantial differences between individuals. These results are important with respect to usage-based theories of language, as they contribute to a more precise account of basic assumptions regarding the relative importance of the factor frequency in shaping linguistic representations and in giving rise to variation across speakers.

Absolute magnitude estimation of pitch

1998 ◽  
Vol 103 (5) ◽  
pp. 2766-2766
Author(s):  
Andrzej Rakowski ◽  
Andrzej Miskiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Magnitude Estimation ◽  
Absolute Magnitude

scholarly journals Contextual Effects in Judgments of Taste Intensity: No Assimilation, Sometimes Contrast

Perception ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 268-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy G. Shepard ◽  
Adam Y. Shavit ◽  
Maria G. Veldhuizen ◽  
Lawrence E. Marks
Keyword(s):  
Magnitude Estimation ◽  
Contextual Effects ◽  
Test Session ◽  
Taste Perception ◽  
Taste Intensity ◽  
Stimulus Context ◽  
Response Scales ◽  
Sensory Modalities ◽  
Sense Modalities

Judgments of taste intensity often show contextual contrast but not assimilation, even though both effects of stimulus context appear in other sense modalities, such as hearing. Four experiments used a paradigm that shifts the stimulus context within a test session in order to seek evidence of assimilation in judgments of the taste intensity of sucrose and, for comparison, the loudness of 500-Hz tones. Experiment 1 found no assimilation in taste using three response scales, magnitude estimation, labeled magnitude, and visual analog, but did find evidence of contrast. Experiments 2 and 3 found no clear evidence of either assimilation or contrast in taste, but found consistent evidence of assimilation in loudness. Experiment 4 found no assimilation in loudness, however, when the intervals between successive stimuli increased from about 6 to 30 s in order to match the interval used with sucrose in Experiments 1 to 3. Taken together, these findings suggest that the assimilation found in intensity judgments in other sensory modalities may not appear in taste perception because of the slower rates presenting of taste stimuli.

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