The Collaborative International Dictionary
Psychophysical \Psy`cho*phys"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to psychophysics; involving the action or mutual relations of the psychical and physical in man.
Psychophysical time (Physiol.), the time required for the mind to transform a sensory impression into a motor impulse. It is an important part of physiological or reaction time. See under Reaction.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to psychophysics 2 psychosomatic
Wikipedia
Psychophysical: sharing the physical and psychological qualities. In the 19th century, German physicist, philosopher and mystic Gustav Theodor Fechner was revolutionary in terming psychophysics. In its simplest form, it is a mathematical relationship between one's internal (psychic) and external (physical) worlds on the basis on experimental data. Multiple studies are currently being conducted in relation to Fechner's ideas.
Psychophysical may refer to:
- Psychophysics, the subdiscipline of psychology dealing with the relationship between physical stimuli and their subjective correlates, or percepts
- Erroneously to Psychophysiology, the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes including sensory processes, and is thereby connected to psychophysics
- Psychophysical parallelism, in philosophy, is the theory that the conscious and nervous processes vary concomitantly whether or not there be any causal connection between them.
Usage examples of "psychophysical".
If psychophysical interaction describes mind and its effect on the body, then telepathy is at least as possible as the magnetic waves emanating from bodies.
But anyone at all versed in elementary science is very well aware that psychophysical interaction vitiates the law of conservation of energy and of entropy.
The sound is called laughing, not barking, and in most cases it is a psychophysical mechanism for the release of minor degrees of tension.
However, by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, even Roman Catholicism came to look upon contemplation as something peculiar, often associated with visions, revelations, raptures, stigmatization, lev-itation, and other bizarre psychophysical phenomena.
The DS suited its tone to his movements and the combined analysis of his psychophysical condition.
The radioactive stone has somehow enabled your brainperhaps by stimulation of the psychophysical faculty that is rudimentary in all of ushas enabled you to concentrate and convert that diffuse energy into material atoms.
It was also home to many patients with more serious psychological or psychophysical problems.
A man at Cambridge has suggested a mechanism for the psychophysical energy transfer, based on the new dynamic-field theory of Xiong Ping-yung.
The psychophysical properties of the platinum metals were not then known.
He had maintained a one-sided, unnoticeable telepathic contact with the Japanese Tako Kukuta until Tako's hypnoblock had been removed by a psychophysical method.
The modern doctrine of psychophysical parallelism is not appreciably different from this theory of the Cartesian school.
Because the space factor vanishes when you solve for the psychophysical term, and the factor of past time is infinitesimal.