Detection Theory for Everyman? Review of Detection Theory: A Users Guide, by Neil A. Macmillan and C. Douglas Creelman

Abstract

Neil A. Macmillan received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970. He is currently a Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College, where he has been since 1969. His primary research interests are psychophysics and auditory perception and he is an Associate Editor of Perception and Psychophysics. C. Douglas Creelman received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1961. He is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. He has been a consultant at the Defense and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine. Toronto, and Associate Director of Research, Subcommittee on Noise Research Centre. Los Angeles. His primary research interests are decision making and hearing. particularly musical judgment. S.A. Harp is Principal Research Scientist at Honeywell Sensor and System Development Center, Minneapolis, with primary research interests in connectionist models and nonparametric statistics. B. Berg is an Assistant Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine, and his work is in psychoacoustics.