Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newark's reaction...
Another test uses three buttons, two of one color and an odd one. This measures quickness of reaction. Birds hit the center button, and then immediately strike the matching one to win their meal...
This places the operation on a skill, rather than gambling, basis, and the pigeons show their appreciation by registering amazing reaction speeds, up to one-tenth of a second. This makes pigeon-speed "greater than that of apes and equal to humans...
...serve only," Conant said, "in coordinating opinion, as moderator in debates, and as an initiator, at times, of a chain reaction...
...years ago. a young medical researcher assisting at an operation near the phrenic nerve (which runs from the brain to the diaphragm), got a new idea from watching a well-known reaction. When stimulated, the phrenic nerve makes the diaphragm contract, causing abdominal breathing. Why is it not possible, Dr. Stanley J. Sarnoff asked himself, to stimulate the nerve rhythmically, perhaps electrically, to provide artificial respiration for patients whose breathing apparatus has been upset...