psychophysicistn.
/ˌsʌɪkəʊˈfɪzᵻsɪst/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkoʊˈfɪzəsəst/ An expert or specialist in psychophysics.
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physicalist1859
physiological psychologist1875
psychophysicist1881
psychophysiologist1888
1881 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Sept. 662 Helmholtz and all the Psycho-physicists of our day.
1901 Oxf. Mag. 4 Dec. 141/1 The experimental school of the modern psycho~physicists is ignored.
1951 S. S. Stevens Handbk. Exper. Psychol. i. 43/2 The psychophysicists have elaborated subtle measures that try to transcend the inconstancy of the mercurial response.
1975 Nature 20 Nov. 201/1 Even though psychophysicists do not necessarily share this confidence, it is worth trying to relate the neurophysiology to measurable psychophysical function.
2004 New Yorker 6 Sept. 130/1 All the rooms on his ground floor of his food-testing and market-research business are named after famous psychophysicists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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