Article ID: CBB000930683

A History of the Concept of the Stimulus and the Role It Played in the Neurosciences (2008)

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The term stimulus, as it was used in science from its earliest appearance in the sixteenth century up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, shows a gradual progress in denotation from the physical object designed to produce nervous and muscular excitation to the generically conceived event or object that initiates sensory or motor activity. To this shift corresponds a shift in the understanding of sensory experience. Johannes Muller's law of specific energy of sensory nerves played a major role in the shift, and Hermann von Helmholtz gave the shift its most thorough philosophical explanation.

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Authors & Contributors
Wade, Nicholas J.
Meulders, Michel
Finger, Stanley
Wise, M. Norton
Schickore, Jutta
Schmidgen, Henning
Concepts
Senses and sensation; perception
Neurosciences
Human physiology
Auditory perception
Philosophy of science
Science and culture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Germany
United States
Australia
Berlin (Germany)
Great Britain
Institutions
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
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