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| Empirical studies led to traveling wave theory of pitch perception which, at least partially, supported Helmholtz's place-resonance theory |
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| Developed a list of depth cues that help us perceive depth |
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| Proposed filter theory of attention |
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| Developed the law which expressed the relationship between the intensity of the stimulus and the intensity of the senssation |
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| Developed the visual cliff apparatus, which is used to study the development of depth perception |
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| Studied depth cues (especially texture gradients) that help us to perceive depth |
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| Developed Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory of color vision; developed place-resonance theory of pitch perception |
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| Developed opponent process theory of color vision |
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| Studied feature detection in visual cortex and discovered simple, complex, and hypercomplex cells |
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| Developed theory of isomorphism |
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| Proposed gate theory of pain |
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| Developed a law that relates the intensity of the stimulus to the intensity of the sensation in reaction to Fechner's law |
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| Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory |
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| Proposed volley theory of pitch perception in response to a criticism of the frequency theory of pitch perception |
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| Developed law which states that perfomance is best at intermediate levels of arousal |
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| Yerkes, R. and Dodson, J. |
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