...whose unity it is the specific office of the nervous system to perfect. Releasing forces acting en the brain from moment to moment shut out from activity...conversely call vast other regions into play. The interference of unlike arcs and the reinforcement of like arcs seem to lie at the very root of the...

...of the Nervous System, Sherrington) 2 "The singleness of action from moment to moment thus assured is a keystone in the construction of the individual...specific office of the nervous system to perfect. Releasing forces acting on the brain from moment to moment shut out from activity whole regions of...

...single nervous system. "The singleness of action from moment to moment thus assured," says Sherrington, "is a keystone in the. construction of the individual...specific office of the nervous system to perfect. ... It is not usual for the organism to be exposed to the action of only one stimulus at a time. It...

...prevents confusion by restricting the use of the organ, its minister, to but one action at a time. . . . The resultant singleness of action from moment to...specific office of the nervous system to perfect." impressions from the environment without and the organism within, the web of associative life is continuously...

...simultaneous use of the common path; like reflexes mutually reinforce each other on their common path. The resultant singleness of action from moment to...specific office of the nervous system to perfect." In the type of reflex response hitherto considered, each reflex arc is especially sensitive to an appropriate...

...construction of the individual whose unity it is the specific office of the nervous system to perfect. Releasing forces acting on the brain from moment to...they conversely call vast other regions into play." "An arc under long continuous stimulation of its receptor tends even when it holds the common path,...

...great psychical process of attention." The singleness of action from moment to moment thus assured is a keystone in the construction of the individual...the specific office of the nervous system to perfect [ibid., p. 466]. "The reflex is an integrative reaction of the organism." Each muscle, each effector...

...neuroanatomy, split-brain symptomatology, and studies of the crossed-uncrossed difference in reaction time. "Releasing forces acting on the brain from moment...specific office of the nervous system to perfect." — Sherrington (1906, p. 234) To ensure "singleness of action," the self-organizing nervous system...

...involves further-reaching co-ordination. The singleness of action from moment to moment thus assured is a keystone in the construction of the individual...specific office of the nervous system to perfect. And in the instance taken, namely, concurrent stimulation of the one fore-foot and the crossed hind-foot,...