Year: 2013
Type: letter
Abstract: Using the pretext of the potential benefit of their fundamental study in improving artificial lighting (with “impact on the billions of people”), Rieiro et al. (1) put forth an unfounded premise, a questionable “contradiction” between two well-known psychophysical phenomena, Bloch’s law (2) and the Broca-Sulzer effect (3). The authors presented this premise to advance an equally implausible hypothesis, according to which this discrepancy could be the result of an unspecified mechanism that they have termed “intrinsic expertise bias,” claimed to be present in Bloch’s but not in Broca-Sulzer’s measurements. Rieiro et al. (1) did not specify in which direction such bias is supposed to affect the measurements, the range in which it is supposed to operate, nor the basis of a differential effect between threshold (Bloch) and suprathreshold (Broca-Sulzer) conditions.
Authors: Andrei Gorea, Christopher W. Tyler
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2167755572