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Muscular Movements in Man, and their Evolution in the Infant: a Study of Movement in Man, and its Evolution, together with Inferences as to the Properties of Nerve-Centres and their Modes of Action in expressing Thought

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Francis Warner
Francis Warner*
Affiliation:
London Hospital Medical College
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(1) Movement in mau has long been a subject of profitable study. Visible movement in the body is produced by muscular contraction following upon stimulation of the muscles by efferent currents passing from the central nerve-system. Modern physiological experiments have demonstrated that when a special brain-area discharges nerve-currents, these are followed by certain visible movements or contraction of certain muscles corresponding. So exact are such reactions, as obtained by experiment upon the brain-areas, that movements similar to those produced by experimental excitation of a certain brain-area may be taken as evidence of action in that area, or as commencing in discharge from that area (see Reinforcement of Movements, 35; Compound Series of Movements, 34).

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Part 1.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 35 , Issue 149 , April 1889 , pp. 23 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1889 

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References

∗ See Author's “The Children, how to Study them.” Section IV. F. Hodgson, Farringdon Street.Google Scholar

∗ See Author's “Physical Expression,” Chap. XIII, International Scientific Series.Google Scholar

∗ See Author's “Physical Expression,” Chap. XIII, International Scientific Series.Google Scholar

† See Author's “Anatomy of Movement.” Kegan Paul & Co. Postures are there classified and named.Google Scholar

∗ See Fig. 2.Google Scholar

∗ “Movements of Plants,” Charles Darwin.Google Scholar

∗ See Fig. 2.Google Scholar

∗ “Journal of Physiology,” Vol. iv, part 2.Google Scholar

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