biography
| name: |
Fechner, Gustav (Theodor)
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pronunciation:
[fekhner]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1801–87)
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| biography:
| Physicist, philosopher, anthropologist, and psychologist, born in Gross Särchen, E Germany. His interest in mind-body relationships led to his book Elemente der Psychophysik (1860, Elements of Psychophysics), in which he developed the ideas of Ernst Heinrich Weber on the measurement of sensory thresholds, and laid the foundations for psychophysics. He was also the founder of experimental aesthetics, and his methods were influential in the development of experimental psychology. |
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