Subject: Re: simple up-down: is there an original reference? From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Ignacio_Alc=E1ntara?= <jia10@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:03:43 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Von Bekesy, G. (1947). A new audiometer. Acta Otolaryngology, 35, 411-422 ??? On 14 Nov 2007, at 11:48, Massimo Grassi wrote: > Dear list, > > I always been told that von Békésy was the first to use (or the > inventor of) the "simple up-down" staircase. > > Is there a precise reference for it? I checked more than a dozen of > articles by now, but everybody seems to sweep this problem under the > rug. Perhaps because there is not such a reference? > > m > > -- > Massimo Grassi - PhD > Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale > Via Venezia 8 - 35131 Padova - Italy > http://www.psy.unipd.it/~grassi > http://percezione.wordpress.com/ __________________________________ José Ignacio Alcántara, M.A., Ph.D. University Lecturer Department of Experimental Psychology University of Cambridge Downing Street Cambridge CB2 3EB Fellow and Tutor, Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Biological) Fitzwilliam College Storeys Way Cambridge CB3 0DG Phone: 44 (0)1223 764412 (Department) 44 (0)1223 477170 (College) Fax: 44 (0)1223 333564 Web: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/lara http://hearing.psychol.cam.ac.uk __________________________________