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How much of how we perceive luminance is biological? Or I suppose neural... (out of my depth here).

By which I mean, is there any objective measure of human perceived luminance?




There exists a method called "Magnitude Estimation". https://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/webexp/release/demos/magnitude-e... describes it as follows:

"Magnitude estimation a technique standardly applied in psychophysics to measure judgments of sensory stimuli (Stevens 1975). The magnitude estimation procedure requires subjects to estimate the magnitude of physical stimuli by assigning numerical values proportional to the stimulus magnitude they perceive. Highly reliable judgments can be achieved for a whole range of sensory modalities, such as brightness, loudness, or tactile stimulation."




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