Word: reflexive
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...vitally interested in the reflexes and workings, dissections, and explanations in Russian, of the brains of children, frogs, idiots, or syphiletics, "Mechanics of the Brain" is at best boring. Pudovkin's film records of Professor Ivan Pavlov's physiology research work on the reflex action of the brain, now shown to the public for the first time, should henceforth only be exhibited in biological and psychological laboratories...
...sneeze is a cough through the nose and, like coughing, a reflex effort to clear the air passages of an irritation. In sneezing the lungs fill with air, then forcibly expel the air. As the blast shoots up the windpipe, the tongue presses against the soft palate, thus shutting the mouth off from the throat. Only way for the blast to get out of the head is through the nose...
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...