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environmental psychophysics

the application of psychophysical methods to problems in real-world environments, such as investigating the magnitude of odor created by a processing plant.

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July 27th 2024

distributional redundancy

distributional redundancy

in psychological aesthetics, the development of uncertainty in an artistic pattern by making some elements occur more frequently than others. Distributional redundancy is one of two kinds of internal restraint in pattern variation, the other being correlational redundancy, in which certain combinations of elements are made to occur more frequently than others.