The mind and its education / by George Herbert Betts . it,hearing the owners dog bark as you leave the accompanying diagram will illustrate roughly thecenters of the cortex which were involved in the act,and the association fibers which connect them. (SeeFig. 16.) Now let us see how you may afterwardremember the circumstance through association. Letus suppose that a week later you are seated at yourdining table, and that you begin to eat an apple whoseflavor reminds you of the one which you plucked fromthe tree. From this start how may the entire circum-stance be recalled? Rememberin
The mind and its education / by George Herbert Betts . it,hearing the owners dog bark as you leave the accompanying diagram will illustrate roughly thecenters of the cortex which were involved in the act,and the association fibers which connect them. (SeeFig. 16.) Now let us see how you may afterwardremember the circumstance through association. Letus suppose that a week later you are seated at yourdining table, and that you begin to eat an apple whoseflavor reminds you of the one which you plucked fromthe tree. From this start how may the entire circum-stance be recalled? Remembering that the cortical MEMORY 115 centers connected with the sight of the apple tree, withour thoughts about it, with our movements in gettingthe apple, and with hearing the dog bark, were allactive together with the taste center, and hence tendto be thrown into activity again from its activity, itis easy to see that we may (1) get a visual image ofthe apple tree and its frait from a current over G-V;(2) the thoughts, emotions, or deliberations which we. Fig. 18. had on the former occasion may again recur to usfrom a current over G-T; (3) we may get an imageof our movements in climbing the fence and pickingthe apple from a current over G-M; or (4) we mayget an auditory image of the barking of the dog froma current over G-A. Indeed, we are sure to get someone or more of these unless the paths are blocked insome way, or our attention leads off in some otherdirection. Which of these we get first, which of theimages the taste image calls to take its place as itdrops out of consciousness, will depend, other thingsbeing equal, on which center was most keenly activein the original situation. (See the fourth law.) If, at9 116 THE MIND AND ITS EDUCATION the time we were eating the stolen fruit, our thoughtswere keenly self-accusing for taking the apples with-out permission, then the current will probably dis-charge through the path G-T, and we shall recall thesethoughts and their accompany
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