psychophysicist
/ˌsaɪkoʊˈfɪzɪsɪst/
noun
- A scientist who studies the relationship between physical stimuli (like light or sound) and the sensations and perceptions they produce.
- As a psychophysicist, she investigates how loud a sound must be before a person feels pain.
- The university hired a psychophysicist to help improve the design of virtual reality headsets.
- The psychophysicist designed an experiment to measure how people perceive changes in brightness.