Fechner Day 2026
Save the Date: Fechner Day 2026 – Umeå, Sweden October 20–22, 2026 We are pleased to announce that the 42nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics (Fechner …
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Fechner Day 2025
We are delighted to invite you to the 41st meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, celebrating Fechner Day 2025. We carefully selected a city that blends …
Yuko Yamashita continues to encourage us
Author: Dr. Yoshitaka Nakajima (Fukuoka, Aug. 15th, 2023) Almost one thousand days have passed since our colleague, Yuko Yamashitaʼs, passing. On the one hundredth day since …
Yuko Yamashita Memorial Award Honoring Excellence in Young Researchers
The Yuko Yamashita Memorial Award for Best Poster Presentation by a Young Researcher honors the legacy of Dr. Yuko Yamashita, who devoted her career to nurturing young talent in …
Fechner Day 2024: 40th International Society for Psychophysics Meeting at IIT Kanpur, India – Register Now
The 40th International Society for Psychophysics meeting, Fechner Day 2024, is scheduled at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, from October 7-9, 2024. Abstract …
ISP travel grant for Fechner Day 2023
The International Society for Psychophysics (ISP) also encourages undergraduate, masters or doctoral students to present their work at Fechner Day 2023 (Assisi, Italy). To …
Fechner Day 2023
The Patrizio Paoletti Foundation and its Research Institute for Neuroscience, Education and Didactic (RINED) are organizing the 39th Annual Meeting of the International Society …
Fechner Day 2022
Fechner Day 2022 -- 38th Annual meeting of the international society for psychophysics was successfully held in Lund August 23 – 26, 2022!
Robert Teghtsoonian, im memoriam
Martha Teghtsoonian Robert Teghtsoonian (1932-2017) was born in Toronto, Canada, where his parents had emigrated from Armenia in the wake of the Armenian genocide and the First …
Eugene Galanter (Oct. 27, 1924 – Nov. 9, 2016)
Photo courtesy of Mrs. Patricia Galanter Imagine Gene Galanter in military uniform atop a hill. He is looking at the vast expanse of human behavior unfolding below him. The …
Fechner Day 2021
The International Society for Psychophysics held its annual meeting on October 19-23, 2021 online. Further information, please visit the Fechner Day 2021 website: …
Open and Transparent Science
OpenScienceSurvey https://herts.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6EfYxgOn9SNkadD Appeal for views on the pros and cons of Open Science. Completion of a brief survey, 5 - 10 minutes, …
Fechner Day 2020 – Online
The online Fechner Day 2020 was held between 20th Oct. and 22nd Oct, 2020 via Zoom. More information can be found on the FD2020 …
Fechner Day 2019
2019 30th October –2nd November 2019 The 35th annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics took place in Antalya, Turkey. The meeting was held at the …
Fechner Day 2018
The 34th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics took place from 20th - 24th August 2018 in Lüneburg, Germany. For details of the meeting please visit the …
LinkedIn Group from Fechner Day 2017
Sophia Arndt, a doctoral candidate at Galway University, created a Fechner Day group on LinkedIn. She would like to invite those interested in psychophysics to join. The group …
Robert Teghtsoonian * 04.02.1932 – †01.07.2017
Robert (Bob) Teghtsoonian was not only a founding member of the International Society for Psychophysics. From the very beginning, his continuous and lively engagement in the …
In memoriam: Ragnar Steingrimsson
Ragnar Steingrimsson, UCI IMBS associate project scientist, dies at 50 Ragnar Steingrimsson, associate project scientist in the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at …
Photos from Fechner Day 2016
Group photos from Fechner Day 2016
Fechner Day 2017
The 33rd annual meeting of the international society for Psychophysics was held in Fukuoka, Japan, 22-26 October 2017. See more information at the official website.
Eugene Galanter 27 October 1924 – 9 November 2016
Diana Kornbrot, University of Hertfordshire Gene Galanter, an early and enthusiastic member of ISP, has died peacefully after a long and heroic struggle with cancer, during which …
Fechner Day 2016 Info
The following PDF is Irina Skotnikova’s PowerPoint presented at Quebec, in which you may find useful information regarding to Fechner Day 2016 in Moscow. FD2016 in Moscow
Fechner Day 2016, Moscow, Russia (15th-20th August)
Fechner Day 2016 – the 32nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics The 32nd meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics (ISP) was held in Moscow, …
William M. Petrusic, 1939-2014
Craig Leth-Steensen* Carleton University, Canada Our very distinguished and long-standing member, Professor William (“Bill”) M. Petrusic has left us. He died on Dec. 12, 2014, at …
Hannes Eisler, 1923-2015
Åke Hellström Stockholm University, Sweden Our very distinguished member, Professor Hannes Eisler, Stockholm University, has left us. He died on May 28, 2015, at the age of 91. He …
William M. Petrusic (1939-2014)
Craig Leth-Steensen and Jordan Schoenherr Carleton University, Ottawa Steven Carroll St. Mary’s University, Halifax William M. (“Bill”) Petrusic received a BA in psychology from …
Douglas Vickers (1940 – 2004)
Stephen Link University of California, San Diego Douglas Vickers, age 64, died suddenly at his home in Adelaide, Australia, on October 31, 2004. He is survived by his wife Yvonne, …
Fechner Day 2015, Québec, Canada, August 17–21
Fechner Day 2015 31st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics The 31st meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics (ISP) was held in Québec, …
Anna D. Eisler 1937-2011
Åke HellströmStockholms universitet, Stockholm Anna D. Eisler was born near Bratislava in former Czechoslovakia. In 1968 she came to Stockholm. Educated as an economist, she became …
R. Duncan Luce (1925-2012)
Eugene GalanterColumbia University I met Bob Bush at Dartmouth at the Social Science Research Council Mathematics meeting, in the summer of 1953. I also met Fred Mosteller, Leon …
John C. Baird (June 24, 1938 – June 8, 2011)
Timothy Hubbard John C. (“Jack”) Baird received his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth in 1960 and his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1964. He served as a Professor of Psychological and …
Joseph Charles Stevens (1929-2014)
Larry Marks John B. Pierce Laboratory and Yale University A leader in sensory psychophysics during the second half of the 20th century, Joe Stevens died unexpectedly but peacefully …
Reflections on the Life and Work of Bertram Scharf (1931-2011)
Robert & Martha TeghtsoonianSmith College Northampton, Massachusetts We first met Bert in September, 1955, when all three of us were part of the incoming class of graduate …
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 …
Jacques Kornbrot 1938 -2014
To all my good friends in ISP, sad to inofrm you of death of Jacques on 6th Nov. He was my unfailing support in all my work for ISP, so any achievements and contributions of mine …
Fechner Day 2014
Welcome to Lund for Fechner Day 2014, August 18-22. The ISP was hosted by Geoff Patching and colleagues. For details of the meeting please visit Fechner Day official website.
Fechner Day 2013
Fechner Day 2013 was held in Freiburg, Germany, on October 21-25, hosted by Dr. Jiří Wackermann and colleagues (IGPP, Empirical and analytical Psychophysics). For details of the …
Fechner Day 2012
International Society for Psychophysics in Ottawa, Canada, October 18 - 21 2012. See detail here: Fechner Day official website.