Summarize Muller’s doctrine of specific nerve energies.
A famous German physiologist, Johannes Muller, transform the Bell-Magendie law into a more plausible explanation of concept that are known as doctrine of specific nerve energies. Muller hypothesized that there are presence of different types of sensory nerves, each containing a bright energy and when they are in the action of stimulation, it results in a characteristic sensation. It also states that each of the nerve responds to in its own characteristic way that no matter how is it stimulated.
Muller identified that various nerves contain its own specific energy by suggesting that all the sense organs are sensitive to the certain type of stimulation. Hence, Muller titles this by “specific irritability” and it was known later as adequate stimulation. According to Muller, the sensations and objects in the physical world are determined by senses and their specific irritability features. The environment has differential types of sensitivity patterns that provide an array of sensations.
According to Muller’s doctrine theory of nerve energies, the most significant feature was focused on the nature of central nervous system that determines the sensations about the nerve experiences. He states that the nervous system acts as the intermediate zone between consciousness and physical objects and also focused on the mechanisms of physiological actions.