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  2. Weber–Fechner law - Wikipedia

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    Both Weber's law and Fechner's law were formulated by Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801–1887). They were first published in 1860 in the work Elemente der Psychophysik ( Elements of Psychophysics ). This publication was the first work ever in this field, and where Fechner coined the term psychophysics to describe the interdisciplinary study of how ...

  3. Just-noticeable difference - Wikipedia

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    This rule was first discovered by Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795–1878), an anatomist and physiologist, in experiments on the thresholds of perception of lifted weights. A theoretical rationale (not universally accepted) was subsequently provided by Gustav Fechner , so the rule is therefore known either as the Weber Law or as the Weber–Fechner ...

  4. Ernst Heinrich Weber - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Heinrich Weber (24 June 1795 – 26 January 1878) [1] was a German physician who is considered one of the founders of experimental psychology.He was an influential and important figure in the areas of physiology and psychology during his lifetime and beyond.

  5. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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    Second law: The acceleration of an object of constant mass is proportional to the net force acting upon it. Third law: Whenever one body exerts a force upon a second body, the second body exerts an equal and opposite force upon the first body. Nielsen's law: A high-end user's internet connection speed grows by 50% per year.

  6. Sensory threshold - Wikipedia

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    The first systematic studies to determine sensory thresholds were conducted by Ernst Heinrich Weber, a physiologist and pioneer of experimental psychology at the Leipzig University. [3] His experiments were intended to determine the absolute and difference, or differential, thresholds.

  7. Psychophysics - Wikipedia

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    Psychophysics quantitatively investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they produce. Psychophysics has been described as "the scientific study of the relation between stimulus and sensation" [1] or, more completely, as "the analysis of perceptual processes by studying the effect on a subject's experience or behaviour of systematically varying the ...

  8. Heinrich Friedrich Weber - Wikipedia

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    Albert Einstein considered Weber a doctoral advisor. Following a bitter disagreement with Weber, Einstein switched to Alfred Kleiner. [3] [4] Heinrich Weber was both Einstein's and Mileva Marić's thesis advisor, and he gave their respective papers the two lowest essay grades in the class, with 4.5 and 4.0, respectively, on a scale of 1 to 6. [5]

  9. Wilhelm Eduard Weber - Wikipedia

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    Wilhelm Weber House, 14,15 Schlossstrasse, Wittenberg Memorial to Wilhelm Weber, Wittenberg Post Office Wilhelm Eduard Weber (/ ˈ v eɪ b ər /; [1] German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈeːdu̯aʁt ˈveːbɐ]; 24 October 1804 – 23 June 1891) was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph.