Normally dogs snatch at food; elephants reach out their trunks for it. A man will pull his hand away from a hot plate. These are examples of unconditioned reflexes, fully developed in infancy. They ...

BECAUSE of the increasing use of emetine hydrochloride in the conditioned-reflex treatment of chronic alcoholism, because the cardiac manifestations of toxicity have not been stressed in the ...

Based on: Conditioned Reflexes and Neuron Organization. By Jerzy Konorski. Translated from the Polish under the author's supervision by Stephen Garry. 8°, cloth, 267 pp., with 18 illustrations.

FEW physiologists can read Russian, and most of them have to depend for their knowledge of Pavlov's work on reviews and summaries published in other languages. Two comprehensive books in English on ...

ONE is often grateful for the existence of general surveys which are written for international congresses or commemorative volumes. They provide excellent opportunities of summarizing a subject in a ...