title: Weber's Law Modeled by the Mathematical Description of a Beam Balance
creator: Lanzara, Richard G.
subject: Psycoloquy
subject: Psychophysics
subject: Philosophy of Mind
subject: Behavioral & Brain Sciences
subject: Perceptual Cognitive Psychology
subject: Psychophysiology
subject: Behavioral Analysis
subject: Theoretical Biology
subject: Animal Behavior
subject: Animal Cognition
subject: Neural Modelling
subject: Applied Cognitive Psychology
subject: Physiological Psychology
subject: Behavioral Biology
description: A beam balance is analyzed as a model that describes Weber's law.  The mathematical derivations of the torques on a beam balance produce a description that is strictly compatible with that law.  The natural relationship of the beam balance model to Weber's law provides for an intuitive understanding of the relationship of Weber's law to sensory and receptor systems. Additionally, this model may offer a simple way to compute perturbations that result from unequal effects on coupled steady state systems. A practical outgrowth from this work is that a relatively simple mathematical description models sensory phenomena and may aid in the understanding of sensory and receptor systems.
publisher: Elsevier Science Inc.
contributor: Jacquez, Prof. John A.
date: 1994
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/4094/1/Weber%27s_Law.pdf
identifier:   Lanzara, Richard G.  (1994) Weber's Law Modeled by the Mathematical Description of a Beam Balance.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/4094/