Information theory has been particularly useful in dealing with experiments
on absolute judgment. In these experiments, the observed is considered as
the communication channel and the question asked is: ``What is the amount
of information that the observer can transmit in an absolute-judgment
task?'' Or, more specifically, ``What is the channel capacity of the
perceiver with respect to the number of items that can be absolutely
discriminated?'' Table 1.4
Table 1.4
: Amount of information in absolute judgements of several stimulus
dimensions (taken from [81])
Details of the experiments are explained in [81].
Esprit Project 8579/MIAMI (Schomaker et al., '95)