The Psychology of Felt Experience

Bright sneezes and dark coughs, loud sunlight and soft moonlight.

“…I have argued elsewhere (Marks, 1975(Marks, , 1978 that pitch and loudness together form a more general auditory attribute of brightness, and that the correlations between pitch and brightness and between loudness and brightness really exemplify the existence of a suprasensory attribute-brightness-that is common to the auditory and visual domains. Similar views were expressed by Nafe (1927), Hornbostel (1931), andHartshorne (1934). If so, then brightness is a characteristic of the auditory medium and the visual medium alike.…”

A Quantitative Theory of Feeling

“…Psychological evidence for the same triple relationship has been cited in a previous article (17). In this case the evidence is more equivocal, as it may be interpreted in terms of the current theory, although, as there pointed out, the facts permit a theory more simple than that formulated under the theory of specific nerve energies and, if the facts permit a more simple theory, economy demands it.…”

“…above that point. Higher temperatures produce a pattern of prick and pressure experiences known as "heat" and, contrary to the usual statement of the case, the transition is not particularly abrupt (17). At the lowest temperatures warmth merges into thermally indifferent pressure so gradually that one cannot tell when one begins and the other ceases.…”

Sensory end‐organs: signal processing in the periphery: a symposium presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA

“…Somatosensory responses also have been viewed as some form of combinatorial, or more accurately, pattern coding (Nafe, ; Sinclair, ; Weddell, ). These authors conclude that information is not encoded in any single sensory afferent but ‘that what leaves the skin as a result of cutaneous stimulation is a complex spatially and temporally dispersed pattern of impulses…’ (Sinclair, ).…”