The American Journal of Psychology, Volume 1Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn University of Illinois Press, 1888 |
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... ACTIVITY OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM . BY WARREN PLYMPTON LOMBARD , M. D. The research described in this paper was made with the purpose of studying the variations to which the knee - jerk is normally subject . The observations ...
... ACTIVITY OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM . BY WARREN PLYMPTON LOMBARD , M. D. The research described in this paper was made with the purpose of studying the variations to which the knee - jerk is normally subject . The observations ...
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... activity of the central nervous system as a whole , or of special mechanisms of the spinal cord and brain . Of the many names which have been given to this phenomenon , viz .: " knee phenomenon , " " patellar tendon reflex ...
... activity of the central nervous system as a whole , or of special mechanisms of the spinal cord and brain . Of the many names which have been given to this phenomenon , viz .: " knee phenomenon , " " patellar tendon reflex ...
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... activity of the quadriceps muscle , of the corresponding afferent and efferent spinal nerves and their roots , and of a certain portion of the cord are necessary to its completeness . Since every condition which influences the action of ...
... activity of the quadriceps muscle , of the corresponding afferent and efferent spinal nerves and their roots , and of a certain portion of the cord are necessary to its completeness . Since every condition which influences the action of ...
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... activity of any one of these centers would make itself felt in all the rest , as if , to speak figuratively , there were a balancing of nervous tension throughout the nervous system , so that a change in any one part must be felt in all ...
... activity of any one of these centers would make itself felt in all the rest , as if , to speak figuratively , there were a balancing of nervous tension throughout the nervous system , so that a change in any one part must be felt in all ...
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... activity of the nerve centres , upon whose integ- rity the knee - jerk has been found to be dependent . Although the work of these observers is , as far as the writer has been able to test it , correct in every particular , it has been ...
... activity of the nerve centres , upon whose integ- rity the knee - jerk has been found to be dependent . Although the work of these observers is , as far as the writer has been able to test it , correct in every particular , it has been ...
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