psychophysical

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating jointly to mental and physical processes or to the relation between mind and body

   The essay examines a psychophysical theory in which each mental event corresponds to a bodily event.

2. 2
   adj

   relating to psychophysics, especially the quantitative relation between physical stimuli and sensations

   The experiment estimated a psychophysical threshold for detecting changes in brightness.

From psycho- ("mind") + physical. The compound first served discussions of mind-body relations and later became closely associated with psychophysics, the measurement of relations between stimuli and perception.

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