“In order that the intensity of a sensation may increase in arithmetical progression, the stimulus must increase in geometrical progression.”
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Gustav Fechner
Gustav Theodor Fechner was a German physicist, philosopher, and experimental psychologist. A pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics, he inspired many 20th-century scientists and philosophers. He is also credited with demonstrating the non-linear relationship between psychological sensation and the physical intensity of a stimulus via the formula: , which became known as th…
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science · German experimental psychologist, physicist, and philosopher (1801–1887) · physicist · psychologist · statistician · university teacher · philosopher · translator · writer · psychophysiologist · physician · also Gustav Fechner, Gustav Theodor Fechner, Fechner
Born 19 April 1801 · Died 18 November 1887 · Q76881
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s Büchlein vom Leben nach dem Tode (Little Book of Life After Death). The composer Gustav Mahler read Fechner as a student, and he identified with Fechner when writing his Second Symphony, his Third, and Das Lied von der Erde. Furthermore, he influenced Sigmund Freud, who refers to Fechner when introducing the concept of psychic locality in his The Interpretation of Dreams that he illustrates with the microscope-metaphor. Fechner
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2010· 1 entry
Published “An Interaction between Kynurenine and the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Can Generate Regulatory T Cells” in The Journal of Immunology — cited 1,422 times.
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1985· 1 entry
The International Society for Psychophysics called its annual conference Fechner Day
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1970· 1 entry
The International Astronomical Union named the Fechner crater on the far side of the Moon after Fechner
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1904· 2 entries
Wrote an admiring introduction to the English translation of Fechner's Büchlein vom Leben nach dem Tode (Little Book of Life After Death)
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“s Büchlein vom Leben nach dem Tode (Little Book of Life After Death). The composer Gustav Mahler read Fechner as a student, and he identified with Fechner when writing his Second Symphony, his Third, and Das Lied von der Erde. Furthermore, he influenced Sigmund Freud, who refers to Fechner when introducing the concept of psychic locality in his The Interpretation of Dreams that he illustrates with the microscope-metaphor. Fechner”
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1894· 1 entry
Enabled English-speakers to learn of the effect through the invention of the spinning top that bears his name, Benham's top
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1887· 1 entry
Died 1887-11-18.
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1884· 1 entry
Awarded honorary citizen of Leipzig (1884).
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1871· 1 entry
Fechner reported the first empirical survey of coloured letter photisms among 73 synesthetes
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1861· 1 entry
Fechner reported that if he looked at a light with a darkened piece of glass over one eye then closed that eye, the light appeared to become brighter, even though less light was coming into his eyes
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1850· 1 entry
With a new approach into how to study the mind
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1839· 2 entries
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1839).
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Injured his eyes in the research on afterimages by gazing at the Sun through colored glasses, while studying the phenomena of color and vision, and after much suffering, resigned from his position
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1838· 1 entry
Also studied the still-mysterious perceptual illusion of what is still called the Fechner color effect, whereby colors are seen in a moving pattern of black and white
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1834· 1 entry
Was appointed professor of physics at Leipzig
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1817· 1 entry
Fechner studied medicine for six months at the Medizinische Akademie Carl Gustav Carus in Dresden and from 1818 at the University of Leipzig, the city in which he spent the rest of his life
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1801· 1 entry
Born 1801-04-19.
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