Conditioned reflexes

Oxford University Press

1927

xv, 430 p.

Human Relations

Bibliography: p. 412-427.

I. The development of the objective method in investigating the physiological activities of the cerebral hemispheres ; Concept of reflex ; Variety of reflexes ; Signal-reflexes: the most fundamental physiological characteristic of the hemispheres -- II. Technical methods employed in the objective investigation of the functions of the cerebral hemispheres ; Response to signals as reflex action ; Unconditioned and conditioned reflexes ; Necessary conditions for the development of conditioned reflexes -- III. The formation of conditioned reflexes by means of conditioned and direct stimuli : Agencies which can be used as conditioned stimuli ; Inhibition of conditioned reflexes: external inhibition -- IV. Internal inhibition of conditioned reflexes: extinction -- V. Internal inhibition (continued: conditioned inhibition. VI. Internal inhibition (continued): delay -- VII. The analyzing and synthesizing activity of the cerebral hemispheres: the initial generalization of conditioned stimuli ; differential inhibition -- VIII. The analyzing and synthesizing activity of the cerebral hemispheres (continued) ; examples of the analysis of stimuli ; synthesis and analysis of compound simultaneous stimuli: synthesis and analysis of compound successive stimuli -- IX. The irradiation and concentration of nervous processes in the cerebral cortex ; The irradiation and concentration of inhibition within a single analyser [analyzer] -- X. Irradiation and concentration of nervous processes in the cerebral hemispheres (continued) ; Irradiation and concentration of inhibition over the entire cortex ; Irradiation and concentration of excitations. XI. Mutual induction of excitation and inhibition ; Positive induction ; Negative induction -- XII. Interaction of irradiation and concentration with induction -- XIII. The cortex as a mosaic of functions ; Examples of the mosaic character of the cortex and the more obvious ways in which this character is acquired ; Variability of the physiological properties of different points of the cortex in some instances: stability in others ; The cortex as a united complex dynamic system -- XIV. The development of inhibition in the cortex under the influence of conditioned stimuli -- XV. Internal inhibition and sleep as one and the same process with regard to their intimate mechanism. XVI. Transition stages between the alert state and complete sleep: hypnotic stages -- XVII. The different types of nervous system ; Pathological disturbances of the cortex result of functional interference -- XVIII. Pathological disturbances of the cortex: result of functional interference (continued) -- XIX. Pathological disturbances of the cortex: result of surgical interference: general disturbances of the cortical activity ; disturbances of the acoustic analyser [analyzer] -- XX. Pathological disturbances of the cortex result of surgical interference (continued): in the visual analyser ; In the tactile cutaneous analyser [analyzer] ; Occurring after extirpation of the frontal lobes ; In the thermal cutaneous analyser [analyzer] ; Arising after extirpation of the gyrus pyriformis ; In the motor analyser [analyzer]. XXI. Pathological disturbances of the cortex result of surgical interference (continued): attempt to correlate the general postoperative behavior of the animals with the disturbances in the activity of individual analysers [analyzers] -- XXII. The general characteristics of the present investigation and its special difficulties ; Discovery of certain errors necessitating the modification of some earlier interpretations -- XXIII. The experimental results obtained with animals in their application to man.

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