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psychophysics

n. a branch of psychology that studies the relationship between the objective physical characteristics of a stimulus (e.g., its measured intensity) and the subjective perception of that stimulus (e.g., its apparent brightness).

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ocular hypertelorism

ocular hypertelorism

see hypertelorism.