APPLICATIONS OF MULTIVARIATE VISUALIZATION TO BEHAVIORAL-SCIENCES

The complexity of psychological science often requires the collection and analysis of multidimensional data. Such data bring about a corresp onding cognitive load that has led scientists to develop techniques of scientific visualization to ease the burden. This paper provides an i ntroduction to scientific visualization techniques, a framework for un derstanding those techniques, and an assessment of the suitability of this approach for psychology. The framework employed builds on the not ion of balancing noise and smooth in statistical analysis.