%0 Journal Article %T A cl¨ªnica da psicof¨ªsica %A Costa %A Marcelo Fernandes %J Psicologia USP %D 2011 %I Universidade de S?o Paulo %R 10.1590/S0103-65642011005000008 %X introducing the psychophysics as an applied science in investigating and approaches and clinical diagnostics. initially, we introduce something of the epistemological and theoretical aspects of the area, we move to approaches that may provide on psychophysics clinical applicability and finally, we discuss the recent advances in clinical application, we present the experiences of our laboratory for clinical research in psychophysics, ending with the prospects for extending the use of psychophysics to clinical investigations of perceptual functions more complex. %K psychophysics %K clinical psychology %K perception %K experimental psychology. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-65642011000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en