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Science 13 January 1961:
Vol. 133. no. 3446, pp. 80 - 86
DOI: 10.1126/science.133.3446.80
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To Honor Fechner and Repeal His Law: A power function, not a log function, describes the operating characteristic of a sensory system

S. S. Stevens

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