Fechner

Fechner definition - medical

Fech·ner (fĕkˈnər, fĕᴋʜˈ-), Gustav Theodor 1801-1887.

German psychologist and physicist who studied the relationship between strength of stimulus and intensity of sensation, thereby founding psychophysics.

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