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Examination of Subject Matter of Wundt's Graduate Students during the period of Wundt's Tenure at Leipzig (1875 -1917)
Wundt directed 186 theses. Seventy of the 186 theses were philosophical, and the rest were psychological. What follows is a break-down of psychological theses according to subject matter.
 
70%
Sensation and perception
(vision 28%; audition 23%; touch 5%; time-sense 8%)
11%
Action, association, and memory
10%
Attention and memory
9%
Methodology
 
Students Compositions Based on the Nationality
136
Germans (including Austrians
14
American
(12 of the 14 obtaining doctorates from 1886 to 1900)
13
Balkans (Rumanian, Bulgaria, etc.)
10
English
6
Polish
3
Russian
2
Danish
2
French