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| | Mind, Brain, and the Experimental Psychology of Consciousness |
 | | In achieving this milestone, Fechner demonstrated the potential for quantitative, experimental exploration of the phenomenology of sensory experience and established psychophysics as one of the core methods of the newly emerging scientific psychology. |
 | | Rejecting a metaphysical foundation for psychology, Wundt argued for the need to transcend the limitations of the direct study of consciousness through the use of genetic, comparative, statistical, historical, and, particularly, experimental methods. |
 | | Experimental psychology, born with Fechner, nurtured by Helmholtz and Donders, was to be raised by Wundt. |
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