The principles of psychology . ame (Vol. I. p. 25), toshow how easily it admits of explanation as a * purely corticaltransaction {ibid. p. 80). The sight of the flame stimu-lates the cortical centre S which discharges by an instinc-tive reflex path into the centre M for the grasping-move- * Even as the proofs of these pages are passing through my hands, Ireceive Heft 2 of the Zeitschrift flir Psychologic u. Physiologic der Sin-nesorgane, in which the irrepressible young Munsterberg publishes experi-ments to show that there is no association between successive ideas,apart from intervening movem
The principles of psychology . ame (Vol. I. p. 25), toshow how easily it admits of explanation as a * purely corticaltransaction {ibid. p. 80). The sight of the flame stimu-lates the cortical centre S which discharges by an instinc-tive reflex path into the centre M for the grasping-move- * Even as the proofs of these pages are passing through my hands, Ireceive Heft 2 of the Zeitschrift flir Psychologic u. Physiologic der Sin-nesorgane, in which the irrepressible young Munsterberg publishes experi-ments to show that there is no association between successive ideas,apart from intervening movements. As my explanations have assumed thatan earlier excited sensory cell drains a later one, his experiments and infer-ences would, if sound, upset all my hypotheses. I therefore can (at thislate moment) only refer the reader to Herr M. s article, hoping to reviewthe subject again myself in another place. WILL. 591 ment. This movement produces tlie feeling of burn, as itseffects come back to the centre S; and this centre by a. Fig. 92. second connate path discharges into M, the centre forwithdrawing the hand. The movement of withdrawalstimulates the centre S^ and this, as far as we are concerned,is the last thing that happens. Now the next time the childsees the candle, the cortex is in possession of the secondarypaths which the first experience left behind. S^ having beenstimulated immediately after S, drained the latter, and nowS discharges into S before the discharge of M has had timeto occur ; in other words, the sight of the flame suggests theidea of the burn before it produces its own natural reflex ef-fects. The result is an inhibition of M, or an overtakingof it before it is completed, by M*.—The characteristic phy-siological feature in all these acquired systems of paths liesin the fact that the new-formed sensory irradiationskeep draining tilings for loard, and so breaking up the motorcircles which would otherwise accrue. But, even apart fromcatalepsy, we see the m
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