Abstract: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Vibratory sensation, both the exploration of its nature and its clinical interpretation, has intrigued physiologists, neurologists, otologists and psychologists for the past one hundred years. Johannes Mueller, 1 in 1830, mentioned it briefly in his textbook of physiology, to adduce further evidence for his doctrine of the specific energy of nerves. The first to analyze this sensation was Weber, 2 who, in his admirable monograph on sensation (1842), wrote in the chapter on the relationship of the sense of feeling to other senses: In the rapidly successive impulses falling on sensory end organs one has a transition from feeling to hearing. By their confluence, these impulses make up a sensation, which can be altered by the length of the intervals between them. These vibrations are felt as a movement, which is taken up by the auditory apparatus as a tone. It is subject to manifold modifications, such as,
Publication Year: 1942
Publication Date: 1942-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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