Families of Converging Power Functions in Psychophysics

Thirteen families of psychophysical power functions from the auditory, visual, proprioceptive, warmth, and cold modalities, are shown to have the property that the members of each family intersect at a common point. In some cases this point corresponds to a very strong stimulus level that approximates the threshold of pain and maybe the ceiling level for the modality.

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