Committee

  • Lorraine Allan (1940-2012)

    Scott Parker American University, Washington, DC Lorraine was a longstanding and dedicated member of the ISP, and was a member of the Executive Board in 1996 and 1997. Born in Toronto, she did her undergraduate work at the University of Toronto and her graduate work at McMaster University. After receiving her Ph.D. she remained…

  • Fechner Day 2012

    International Society for Psychophysics in Ottawa, Canada, October 18 – 21 2012. See detail here: Fechner Day official website.

  • Fechner Day Conferences

    The International Society for Psychophysics holds its annual meetings, known as Fechner Day, to commemorate the inception of Psychophysics by Gustav-Theodor Fechner on October 22nd, 1850. To access information about the annual Fechner Day meetings, please refer to the following links. Kanpur, India, October 7-9, 2024 Organizers: Narayanan Srinivasan, Devpriya Kumar, Ark Verma, Pratyush…

  • History

    The Society was conceived during discussions among varying combinations of Birgitta Berglund, Ulf Berglund, Bertram Scharf, Martha Teghtsoonian, and Robert Teghtsoonian, during the early part of 1985, and had its first meeting later the same year in Marseille, France. Scharf and his colleagues in the CNRS laboratories in Marseille agreed to serve as a…

  • Constitution

    ARTICLE 1 NAME The name of this organization shall be the International Society for Psychophysics.