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Reflex Speech

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

George M. Robertson
George M. Robertson*
Affiliation:
Royal Asylum, Morningside
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This subject will be best studied by first considering the evolution of reflex action on the lines laid down by Herbert Spencer.* Reflex action is first displayed in its crudest form in the contraction which occurs when the amoeba is touched, but not till there is a differentiation between the tissue which conducts and the tissue which responds to a stimulus, can reflex action be said to be thoroughly developed.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 34 , Issue 145 , April 1888 , pp. 43 - 51
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1888 

References

* “The Principles of Psychology.” Google Scholar
* “Mental Physiology,” Carpenter.Google Scholar
† “The Brain as an Organ of Mind,” Bastian.Google Scholar
* “The Expression of the Emotions,” Darwin.Google Scholar
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