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1. Weber, E. H. Weber, Ernst Heinrich Webernoun

   German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)

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1. Ernst Heinrich Weber

   Ernst Heinrich Weber (24 June 1795 – 26 January 1878) 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. His studies on sensation and touch, along with his emphasis on good experimental techniques led to new directions and areas of study for future psychologists, physiologists, and anatomists. Ernst Weber was born into an academic background, with his father serving as a professor at the University of Wittenberg. Weber became a doctor, specializing in anatomy and physiology. Two of his younger brothers, Wilhelm and Eduard, were also influential in academia, both as scientists with one specializing in physics and the other in anatomy. Ernst became a lecturer and a professor at the University of Leipzig and stayed there until his retirement.

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1. ernst heinrich weber

   Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795–1878) was a renowned German physician and foundational figure in the field of experimental psychology. Among his many significant contributions, Weber is best known for his work in the areas of sensation and perception, particularly in the measure of the sense of touch and spatial perceptions, once known as "Weber's law", or the just-noticeable difference. This principle states that a perceived change in a stimulus will be proportional to the initial magnitude of the stimulus. His studies paved the way for many later advancements in the science of perception.

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1. Ernst Heinrich Weber

   Ernst Heinrich Weber was a German physician who is considered one of the founders of experimental psychology. Weber studied medicine at Wittenberg University. In 1818 he was appointed Associate Professor of comparative anatomy at Leipzig University, where he was made a Fellow Professor of anatomy and physiology in 1821. In the 1820s or 1830s Weber began studying the tactile senses, the two-point threshold and weight perception. He published his early work in 1834 in Latin, and published this together with later work in 1846 in German. He found that weight discrimination was much finer with active lifting than when the weights were placed on supported hands. He also found that the just-noticeable difference of the change in the magnitude of a stimulus is proportional to the magnitude of the stimulus, rather than being an absolute value. Gustav Fechner named this Weber's Law. Fechner explored this relation further in the 1850s and, integrating over Weber's proportional jnds, argued for a logarithmic relation between physical and psychological magnitudes. This new law became known as Fechner's Law, or the Weber-Fechner Law, and formed the basis of Fechner's new science of psychophysics.

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