Weber’s Law or Fechner’s law or the Weber–Fechner law


Weber’s law is a principle law in psychophysics first proposed by Gustav Weber, and further formulated by his student Gustav Fechner. The law states that the sensation of a stimulus is proportional to the logarithm of the intensity of the stimulus causing it. The law is expressed by the formula: sensation intensity = C log stimulus intensity, where C is a constant scaling factor. Weber’s law does not hold for extremes of stimulation.