Johannes Müller found that nerves only give information characteristic of the sense associated with it. This means that when an auditory nerve is stimulated, it will result in someone hearing a sound, even when no noise is present. Müller called this ____.?
a. ?the doctrine of the specific energies of nerves
b. ?specificity
c. ?neuronal tubule clarity
d. ?the postmortem method
e. ?the experimental method in physiology
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