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The law of specific nerve energies, first proposed by Johannes Peter Müller in 1835, is that the nature of perception is defined by the pathway over which the sensory information is carried. Hence, the origin of the sensation is not important. Therefore the differences in sensory quality, the difference between seeing and hearing, between hearing and touch, and so on - are not caused by differences in the stimuli themselves but by the different nervous structures that these stimuli excite. For example, pressing on the eye elicits sensations of flashes of light because the neurons in the retina send a signal to the occipital lobe. Despite the sensory input's being mechanical, the experience is visual.
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Muller's doctrine of specific nerve energies states that the nature of a sensation is determined not by the stimulus itself, but by the specific nerve fibers that are stimulated. In other words, different nerve fibers are responsible for transmitting different types of sensory information to the brain, regardless of the type of stimulus. This theory helped to establish the concept of sensory coding in neuroscience.
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anatical
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the law of specific nerve energies
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