Word: stimuli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next cat experiment of Drs. Clark & Ward was even more exciting; gave more specific support to this classic but never entirely proved theory. They removed half of their cat's hind brain thus preventing radiation of stimuli, and touched the sound half with an electric current. This time the cat slowly raised only the foreleg on the stimulated side, slowly put it down. Patient Drs. Clark & Ward are seeking other motor centres...
...understood by biochemists and physiologists. It is known that a very delicate acid-base equilibrium is essential for conception. This equilibrium is very easily upset, and nothing seems to affect it more quickly and decisively than psychological disturbances. . . . The thyroid gland is especially prompt in its reaction to psychological stimuli. Its secretions, containing thyroxin, are produced during normal sexual intercourse in such abundance as almost to constitute an eruption. This energetic secretion of thyroxin would appear to be an essential preliminary to conception. Inhibiting the function of the thyroid by emotional stress or other conditions is therefore at least...
...Tapps' family physician examined the girl, who thrice had had pneumonia. He found her pulse normal, her reflexes satisfactory, declared she was in a state of autohypnosis, responding only to religious stimuli. Thus when the Full Salvationists sang Have Thine Own Way, Lord, a newshawk took Shirley's pulse, found it increased from 93 to 103. And Shirley smiled dreamily for a cameraman when she was asked, "Shirley, do you love Jesus?", by her friend Elmer Wood...
Machine age esthetic stimuli are found in straight forward, business like buildings, where our Victorian grand parents insisted on gingerbread ornament from which to drape their tendrils of memory and affection." The sentimental Victorian distinction between "architecture" and "Building" no longer prevails for the modernist...
...healthy scepticism is the priceless gift of higher education, by the time a man enters college, in nine cases out of ten his heredity and environment and upbringing have given him an approach to life which is best suited to him. While opening one's mind to intellectual stimuli of all kinds, one should take care not to confuse principles with knowledge. Only if the two are kept in their true position can the former remain intact, and the latter be increased...