Psychophysical
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Psychophysical may refer to:
- PsychophysicsPsychophysicsPsychophysics quantitatively investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they effect. Psychophysics has been described as "the scientific study of the relation between stimulus and sensation" or, more completely, as "the analysis of perceptual...
, the subdiscipline of psychology dealing with the relationship between physical stimuli and their subjective correlates, or percepts - PsychophysiologyPsychophysiologyPsychophysiology is the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes. While psychophysiology was a general broad field of research in the 1960s and 1970s, it has now become quite specialized, and has branched into subspecializations...
, the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes - Psychophysical parallelismPsychophysical parallelismPsychophysical parallelism, in philosophy, is the theory that mental and bodily experiences occur in tandem with each other, but without any type of causal interaction; it denies the interaction between the body and the mind. In other words, the mind and body are two independent phenomena but...
, in philosophy, is the theory that the conscious and nervous processes vary concomitantly whether or not there be any causal connection between them