The Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology, Volume 14

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Page 283 - The Eyes of the Blind Vertebrates of North America. V. The History of the Eye of the Blind Fish Amblyopsis from Its Appearance to its Disintegration In Old Age. Mark Anniversary Volume (New York.
Page 534 - AV. 1887. Contribution to the fauna of the Gulf of Mexico and the South. List of the fresh-water and marine Crustacea of Alabama, with descriptions of the new species and synoptical keys for identification.
Page 533 - A Final Report on the Crustacea of Minnesota Included in the Orders Cladocera and Copepoda. Together with a Synopsis of the described Species in North America and Keys to the known Species of the more Important Genera.
Page 435 - My thesis now is this : that, when we think of the law that thought is a function of the brain, we are not required to think of productive function only ; we are entitled also to consider permissive or transmissive function. And this the ordinary psycho-physiologist leaves out of his account.
Page 291 - ... reacts positively to large patches of bright sunlight rather than to small ones, even though the latter, as in the case of the sun, may be much more intense.
Page 79 - Thorndike ( 1914) , an eminent proponent of this view, wrote that the mind must be regarded not as a functional unit, nor even as a collection of a few general faculties which work irrespective of particular material, but rather as a multitude of functions each of which involves content as well as form, and so is related closely to only a few of its fellows, to the others with greater and greater degrees of remoteness (p.
Page 382 - Mass., at the Biological Laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, at Ogunquit, Maine, and at Randolph, NH I wish to express my obligations to Dr.
Page 18 - I have found in the case of all puppies, and several other kinds of animals examined, that even on the first day of birth they will not creep off a surface on which they rest, if elevated some little distance above the ground. When they approach the edge they manifest hesitation, grasp with their claws or otherwise attempt to prevent themselves falling, and, it may be, cry out, giving evidence of some profound disturbance in their nervous system.
Page 78 - The answer which I shall try to defend is that a change in one function alters any other only in so far as the two functions have as factors identical elements. The change in the second function is in amount that due to the change in the elements common to it and the first. The change is simply the necessary...
Page 79 - Improvement in any single mental function need not improve the ability in functions commonly called by the same name. It may injure it. Improvement in any single mental function rarely brings about equal improvement in any other function, no matter how similar, for the working of every mental function-group is conditioned by the nature of the data in each particular case.

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