Word: reflexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Causes. Several theories exist to explain the cause of migrainous, headaches. The "reflex" theory predicates an irritation somewhere in the body. The eyes have been blamed as one of the chief sources of reflex irritation...
...scholars like to discuss. Neurologists argue for Professor Sherrington. Harvard's Harvey Gushing defers to him, his laboratory at Oxford is a shrine. Everyone who meets him, who hears his quiet elucidation of the abstruse, becomes his friend. His researches laid the foundations of our present knowledge of reflex actions. His Integrative Action of the Nervous System is practically an engineering manual of the body's telegraph system. When a person wants to crook his finger, nerves carry the decision to the appropriate muscles. When he wishes to straighten the finger, other nerves carry the decision...
...experiment, being conducted by Ellis Spear III 2G, is an attempt to study the formation of conditioned reflexes, with special references to the intensity and duration of both the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus. The particular reflex in question is one which occurs in connection with the breathing curve of guinea pigs. Dr. Morgan Upton noted, a few years ago, that when a guinea pig is stimulated with a small electric spark a sharp rise in the breathing curve takes place. Mr. Spear hopes to condition this reflex to a 1000 cycle note, and to study the formation...
...sees another eating it, then when he hears the word 'lemon'. When this occurs he has learned the meaning of the word. It is astonishing (with references to Pawlow,) how much you can tell by watching a dog's mouth water. I certainly think this idea of the conditioned reflex largely covers the question of meaning...
...would be hard to say what the reflex to some abstract word such as 'incompatibility' would be. Yet here again I think conditioned reflexes would be involved. Meaning is therefore a psychological, or a physiological concept...