Subject: Re: simple up-down: is there an original reference? From: Zlatan Ribic <zlatan@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:24:58 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Also in: Bekesy: Experiments in hearing (McGraw-Hill 1960) p. 81-91 ----- Original Message ----- From: "José Ignacio Alcántara" <jia10@xxxxxxxx> To: <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:03 PM Subject: Re: simple up-down: is there an original reference? 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 __________________________________