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(psychophysics) the concept that a just-noticeable difference in a stimulus is proportional to the magnitude of the original stimulus
Weber's law explains why you don't notice your headlights are on in the daytime
How To Use Weber's law In A Sentence
- We can obviously say nothing immediate about how the central sense-excitations would be sensed independently of the latter; thus Weber's Law, too, concerns only apperceived sensations, and therefore can just as well have its basis in the processes of the apperceptive comparison of sensation as in the original constitution of the central sensory excitations. Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
- Ultimately, only the smallest separation in the 'fixate' condition was within the regime of the Weber's Law (ratio lower than 0.5), whereas the remaining conditions should be mainly influenced by the eccentricity of the furthest dot. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- We can obviously say nothing immediate about how the central sense-excitations would be sensed independently of the latter; thus Weber's Law, too, concerns only apperceived sensations, and therefore can just as well have its basis in the processes of the apperceptive comparison of sensation as in the original constitution of the central sensory excitations. Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
- This equation, which later came to be known as Weber's Law, [19] was crucial to the development of psychology because it apparently demonstrated that where Herbart had failed in his aprioristic construction of mathematical regularities of mind, experimentation could succeed. Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
- Weber's law explains why you don't notice your headlights are on in the daytime