The Measurement of Sensation

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Hedonic scaling: A review of methods and theory (2011, background): “For this reason, it was thought a century and a half ago that such experiences were inaccessible to direct measurement (see Boring, 1929; Savage, 1970).”
Absolute identification by relative judgment. (2005, background): “…(1991) Restricted capacity Yes Yes No No No No No No No Lacouture and Marley (1995, 2004) Restricted capacity Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Laming (1984, 1997) Relative judgment Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes Brown, Neath, and Chater (2002) Exemplar No No Yes Yes Yese No No No No Nosofsky…”
Decision by sampling. (2006, background): “…from psychophysics which suggests that people are rather good at discriminating stimuli from one another, but rather bad at identifying or estimating the magnitude of the same stimuli (see Garner, 1962; Miller, 1956; Laming, 1984, 1997; Shiffrin & Nosofsky, 1994; Stewart, Brown, & Chater, 2005).”
The influence of training and experience on rater performance in scoring spoken language (2016, background): “…and behavioral economics which have asserted that the basic psychological process of magnitude judgment is one of comparison, where the item being judged is compared with other similar items located in the immediate environment or in memory (Laming, 1997; Stewart, Chater, and Brown, 2006).”