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A Chapter on some Organic Laws of Personal and Ancestral Memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

T. Laycock*
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh

Extract

I propose to show that organic memory consists in cerebral processes, regulated by the laws of evolution and reversion, and common as vital processes to both plants and animals.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1875 

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