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The Manuscripts Librarian is Dr. Stan Larson.
For further information, email: stan.larson@library.utah.edu,
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Detailed Description of the Records
    box  1 : Biographical Information and Articles, A-N (1934-1972)
      folder  1 : Autobiographical Essay and Biographical Information
      folder  2 : "Adaptation Level vs. The Relativity of Judgment" (1958)
      folder  3 : "The Apparent Reduction of Loudness" (1955)
      folder  4 : "The Attributes of Tones" (1934)
      folder  5 : "The Auditory Input-Output Function"
      folder  6 : "The Basis of Psychophysical Judgments" (1963)
      folder  7 : "Binaural Summation of Loudness" (1960)
      folder  8 : "Biological Transducers"
      folder  9 : "Brightness Function: Effects of Adaptation" (1963)
      folder  10 : "Calculating Loudness" (1957)
      folder  11 : "Calculation of the Loudness of Complex Noise" (1956)
      folder  12 : "The Calculation of the Loudness of Noise" (1956)
      folder  13 : "Calculating the Perceived Level of Light and Sound" (1972)
      folder  14 : "Cardiac Acceleration in Emotional Situations" (1937)
      folder  15 : "A Classification of Scales of Measurement"
      folder  16 : "Concerning the Form of the Loudness Function" (1957)
      folder  17 : "Concerning the Measurement of Brightness" (1966)
      folder  18 : "Concerning the Psychophysical Power Law" (1964)
      folder  19 : "Cross-Modality Matching of Brightness to Loudness by 5 yr. Olds" (1969)
      folder  20 : "Cross-Modality Validation of Subjective Scales for Loudness, Vibration, and Electric Shock" (1959)
      folder  21 : "Critical Band Width in Loudness Summation" (1957)
      folder  22 : "Decibels of Light and Sound" (1955)
      folder  23 : "A Demonstration of Positive and Negative Visual After-Images"
      folder  24 : "The Development of Recorded Auditory Tests for Measuring Loss for Speech" (1947)
      folder  25 : "The Direct Estimation of Sensory Magnitudes--Loudness" (1956)
      folder  26 : "Duration, Luminance, and the Brightness Exponent" (1966)
      folder  27 : "The Dynamics of Subjective Warmth and Cold" (1963)
      folder  28 : "Effect of Glare Angle on the Brightness Function for a Small Target" (1965)
      folder  29 : "The Emotional Responses: Changes of Heart-Rate in a Gun-Shy Dog" (1938)
      folder  30 : "The Estimation of Loudness by Unpracticed Observers" (1956)
      folder  31 : "Factors in the Production of Aural Harmonics and Combination Tones" (1937)
      folder  32 : "Finger Span: Ratio Scale, Category Scale, and Just Noticeable Difference (JND) Scale (1959)
      folder  33 : "Growth of Sensation on Seven Continua as Measured by Force of Handgrip" (1960)
      folder  34 : Handbook of Experimental Psychology (1951)
      folder  35 : "To Honor Fechner and Repeal His Law" (1961)
      folder  36 : "Intensity Functions in Sensory Systems" (1967)
      folder  37 : "Introduction: A Definition of Communication" (1950)
      folder  38 : "Issues in Psychophysical Measurement" (1971)
      folder  39 : "Is There a Quantal Threshold?" (1961)
      folder  40 : "The Localization of Actual Sources of Sound" (1936)
      folder  41 : "The Localization of Pitch Perception on the Basilar Membrane" (1935)
      folder  42 : "The Localization of Pure Tones" (1934)
      folder  43 : "Loudness Functions Under Inhibition" (1967)
      folder  44 : "Loudness: A Product of Volume Times Density" (1965)
      folder  45 : "Loudness, Reciprocality, and Partition Scales" (1962)
      folder  46 : "Machines Cannot Fight Alone" (1946)
      folder  47 : "The Masking of Pure Tones and of Speech by White Noise" (1950)
      folder  48 : "Masking and Sensory Dynamics" (1967)
      folder  49 : "The Masking of Speech by Sine Waves, Square Waves, and Regular and Modulated Pulses" (1946)
      folder  50 : "Matching Functions between Loudness and Ten Other Continua" (1966)
      folder  51 : "Measurement of Auditory Density" (1964)
      folder  52 : "The Measurement of Loudness" (1955)
      folder  53 : "Measurement and Man" (1957)
      folder  54 : "Measurement, Psychophysics, and Utility" (1959)
      folder  55 : "Measurement and Social Science"
      folder  56 : "Measurement, Statistics, and the Schemapiric View" (1968)
      folder  57 : "A Mechanical Correlator" (1938)
      folder  58 : "The Mechanism of Hearing by Electrical Stimulation" (1939-1940)
      folder  59 : "Methods Measuring Speech Spectra" (1947)
      folder  60 : "A Metric for the Social Consensus" (1966)
      folder  61 : "The NAS- NRC (National Research Council) and Psychology" (1952)
      folder  62 : "The Nature of Tonal Brightness" (1936)
      folder  63 : "Neural Events and the Psychophysical Law" (1970)
      folder  64 : "A Neural Quantum in Sensory Discrimination" (1972)
      folder  65 : "The New Harvard Psychological Laboratories" (1947)
    box  2 : Articles, O-R (1934-1974)
      folder  1 : "On the Averaging of Data" (1955)
      folder  2 : "On the Brightness of Lights and the Loudness of Sounds" (1953)
      folder  3 : "On the Halving and Doubling the Loudness of White Noise"
      folder  4 : "On Hearing by Electrical Stimulation" (1937)
      folder  5 : "On Measurement of Sensation" (1957)
      folder  6 : "On the Method of Bisection and its Relation to a Loudness Scale" (1937)
      folder  7 : "On the Nature of Aural Harmonics" (1936)
      folder  8 : "On the New Psychosis" (1960)
      folder  9 : "On the Operation Known as Judgment" (1966)
      folder  10 : "On the Pitch of Frequency-Modulated Tones" (1938)
      folder  11 : "On the Predicting Exponents for Cross-Modality Matches" (1969)
      folder  12 : "On the Problem of Scales for the Measurement of Psychological Magnitudes" (1939)
      folder  13 : "On the Psychophysical Law" (1957)
      folder  14 : "On the Theory of Scales and Measurement" (1946)
      folder  15 : "On the Uses of Poidilitic Functions" (1965)
      folder  16 : "On the Validity of the Loudness Scale" (1959)
      folder  17 : "The Operational Basis of Psychology"
      folder  18 : "The Operational Definition of Psychological Concepts" (1935)
      folder  19 : "Operations or Words?" (1966)
      folder  20 : "Perceived Level of Noise by Mark VII and Decibels (E)" (1971)
      folder  21 : "Perceptual Magnitude and its Measurements" (1974)
      folder  22 : "The Phenomenon of Masking" (1935)
      folder  23 : "Pitch Discrimination, Mels and Kock's Contention" (1954)
      folder  24 : "Power-Group Transformations Under Glare, Masking, and Recruitment" (1966)
      folder  25 : "Premodulation Clipping in AM Voice Communication" (1947)
      folder  26 : "Problems and Methods of Psychophysics" (1958)
      folder  27 : "Procedure for Calculating Loudness: Mark VI" (1961)
      folder  28 : "A Psychological Scale of Weight and a Formula for Its Derivation" (1948)
      folder  29 : "Psychological Writing, Easy and Hard"
      folder  30 : "Psychology: The Propaedeutic Science" (1936)
      folder  31 : "Psychology and the Science of Science"
      folder  32 : "Psychophysics and the Measurement of Loudness" (1968)
      folder  33 : "The Psychophysics of Sensory Function" (1960-1961)
      folder  34 : "Psychophysics and Social Scaling" (1972)
      folder  35 : Psychophysics, Review
      folder  36 : "Psychophysiological Acoustics: Pitch and Loudness" (1936)
      folder  37 : "The Psychophysiology of Hearing" (1936)
      folder  38 : "In Pursuit of the Sensory Law" (1962)
      folder  39 : "The Quantification of Sensation" (1959)
      folder  40 : "The Quantification of Tonal Volume" (1962)
      folder  41 : "Le Quantitatif et La Perception" (1968)
      folder  42 : "Quantifying the Sensory Experience"
      folder  43 : "The Quantum of Sensory Discrimination" (1940)
      folder  44 : "Ratio Scales and Category Scales for a Dozen Perceptual Continua" (1957)
      folder  45 : "Ratio Scales of Opinion" (1968)
      folder  46 : "Ratio Scales, Partition Scales, and Confusion Scales" (1960)
      folder  47 : "Rectilinear Rectification Applied to Voltage Integration" (1942)
      folder  48 : "Regression Effect in Psychophysical Judgment" (1966)
      folder  49 : "Relation of Brightness to Duration and Luminance under Light and Dark Adaptations" (1964)
      folder  50 : "The Relation of Pitch to Frequency: A Revised Scale" (1940)
      folder  51 : "The Relation of Pitch to Intensity" (1934)
      folder  52 : "The Relation of Saturation to the Size of the Retinal Image" (1934)
      folder  53 : "Review of Das Ohr Als Nachrichtenempfanger" (1968)
    box  3 : Articles, S-W (1934-1973)
      folder  1 : "Saturation of Red: A Prothetic Continuum" (1966)
      folder  2 : "A Scale of Apparent Intensity of Electric Shock" (1958)
      folder  3 : "A Scale for the Measurement of a Psychological Magnitude: Loudness" (1936)
      folder  4 : "A Scale for the Measurement of the Psychological Magnitude Pitch" (1937)
      folder  5 : "Scaling of Apparent Viscosity" (1964)
      folder  6 : Scaling of Saturation and Hue" (1966)
      folder  7 : "The Scaling of Subjective Roughness and Smoothness" (1962)
      folder  8 : "The Science of Noise" (1946)
      folder  9 : "Sensory Scales of Taste Intensity" (1969)
      folder  10 : "Sensory Power Functions and Neural Events"
      folder  11 : "Sensory Transform Functions" (1962)
      folder  12 : The Ski & Me (1966)
      folder  13 : "Some Similarities between Hearing and Seeing" (1958)
      folder  14 : "El Sonido" (1973)
      folder  15 : "Stability of Human Performance under Intense Noise" (1972)
      folder  16 : "Subjective Hardness of Compliant Materials" (1964)
      folder  17 : "Subjective Intensity of Coffee Odor" (1960)
      folder  18 : "Subjective Scaling of Length and Area and the Matching of Length to Loudness and Brightness" (1963)
      folder  19 : "The Surprising Simplicity of Sensory Metrics" (1962)
      folder  20 : "A Switch for the Presentation of Electrically Generated Tonal Stimuli"
      folder  21 : "Table Relating Phons and Sones"
      folder  22 : "Tactile Vibration: Change of Exponent with Frequency" (1968)
      folder  23 : "Tactile Vibration: Dynamics of Sensory Intensity" (1959)
      folder  24 : "Theory of the Neural Quantum in the Discrimination of Loudness and Pitch" (1941)
      folder  25 : "Tonal Density" (1934)
      folder  26 : "Toward a Resolution of the Fechner-Thurstone Legacy" (1961)
      folder  27 : "Transfer Functions of the Skin and Muscle Senses" (1966)
      folder  28 : "Vision, Hearing and Aeronautical Design"
      folder  29 : "Voice Level: Autophonic Scale, Perceived Loudness, and Effects of Sidetone" (1961)
      folder  30 : "The Volume and Intensity of Tones"
      folder  31 : "Warmth and Cold: Dynamics of Sensory Intensity" (1960)
    box  4 : General Materials (1935-1981)
      folder  1 : American Psychological Association, "Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards" (1960)
      folder  2 : Georg von Békésy, "The Ear"
      folder  3 : Hallowell Davis and Douglas A. Ross, "Selection of Hearing Aids" (1945)
      folder  4 : Miguelina Guirao, "Perceived Vibration and the Loudness of Low-Frequency Tones" (1975)
      folder  5 : C. E. M. Hansel, "The Market for Miracles" (1967)
      folder  6 : Robert S. Harper, "The Laboratory of William James" (1949)
      folder  7 : Edwin B. Newman, "Steven's Operationism" (1973)
      folder  8 : Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, Harvard University, Check-List of Reports (1945-1961)
      folder  9 : Symposium before the American Otological Society, Articles (1935)
      folder  10 : USA Standard (1968)
      folder  11 : Miscellaneous (1981)