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Stimulus threshold
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The absolute threshold is the smallest amount of stimulus energy necessary to produce a sensation of the stimulus. The idea that a mental event has to exceed some critical amount is central to the concept of a sensory threshold. The absolute threshold refers to the measurement of that critical amount.
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Gescheider, G. A. (1997). Psychophysics: The fundamentals (3rd ed.). London: Erlbaum, Chapter 1.
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Mennemeier, M. (2018). Absolute Threshold. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_9112
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