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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
(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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† 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
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