Summation

Summation has a number of connotations in psychology:

Generally it refers to a combination of effects.

• In neuroscience:
  • Summation (neurophysiology)
    • Sensory summation
    • Spatial summation
    • Temporal summation

• In psychoanalysis summation is the culmination repressed or suppressed wishes, forcing the ego to become conscious of all dissociated needs at once, showing through postural tensions of the striped muscle apparatus.[1]

• In statistics it is the totaling of a series of numbers.

See also

• Summation curve
• Summation tone