Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes Twenty-five Years of Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Activity (Behaviour) of Animals

Translator's Preface 9 I. P. Pavlov: A Biographical Sketch, By Dr. W. Horsley Gantt . 11 Introduction To The English Translation, By Prof. Walter B. Cannon 33 Author's Preface To The English Translation 35 Preface To The First Russian Edition • 37 Chapter. I. Experimental Psychology And Psycho-Pathology In Animals – 47 II. . The Psychical Secretion Of The Salivary Glands (Complex Nervous Phenomena In The Work Of The Salivary Glands) 61 III. The First Sure Steps Along The Path Of A New Investigation 76 IV. Scientific Study Of The So-Called Psychical Processes In The Higher Animals 81 V. Conditioned Reflexes In Dogs After Destruction Of Different Parts Of The Cerebral Hemispheres 97 VI. The Cortical Taste Centre Of Dr. Gorshkov 99 VII. Mechanism Of The Highest Parts Of The Central Nervous System As Shown From The Study Of The Conditioned Reflexes 100 VIII. Further Advances Of The Objective Analysis Of Complex Nervous Phenomena, And Its Comparison With The IX. Subjective Conception Of These Phenomena • 103 X. Some General Facts About The Cerebral Centres , 115 XI. Natural Science And The Brain 120 XII. The Task And The Arrangement Of A Laboratory For The Study Of The Normal Activity Of The Highest Parts Of The Central Nervous System In The Higher Animals • 131 XIII. A Laboratory For The Study Of The Activity Of The Central Nervous System In The Higher Animals 144 XIV. The Food Centre • 147 XV. Some Fundamental Laws Of The Work Of The Cerebral Hemispheres 156 XVI. Destruction Of The Skin Analyser 165 XVII. The Process Of Differentiation Of Stimulations In The Hemispheres Of The Brain 170 XVIII. Some Principles Of The Activity Of The Central Nervous System As Shown From The Study Of Conditioned Reflexes ; Interaction Of Centres 182 XIX. Summary Of Results Of Removal Of Different Parts Of The Cerebral Hemispheres 193 XX. Internal Inhibition As A Function Of The Cerebral Hemispheres 205 XXI. The Objective Study Of The Highest Nervous Activity Of Animals . 213 XXII. The Study Of The Highest Nervous Activity • 223 XXIII. The Instability (Lability) Of Internal Inhibition In Conditioned Reflexes . 238 XXIV. The Pure Physiology Of The Brain 241 XXV. Some Facts About The Physiology Of Sleep 250 XXVI. An Analysis Of Some Complex Reflexes In The Dog; And The Relative Strength And Tension Of Several Centres 255 XXVII. Physiology And Psychology In The Study Of The Higher Nervous Activity Of Animals 261 XXVIII. The Reflex Of Purpose 275 XXIX. The Reflex Of Freedom 282 XXX. How Psychiatry May Help Us To Understand The Physiology Of The Cerebral Hemispheres 287 XXXI. Hypnotism In Animals 294 XXXII. The Normal Activity And General Constitution Of The Cerebral Hemispheres . 296 XXXIII. Internal Inhibition And Sleep-One And The Same Process 305 XXXIV. Changes In The Excitability Of Various Points Of The Cerebral Cortex As One Of Its Functional Characteristics 319 XXXV. Another Problem In Cerebral Physiology 326 XXXVI. The Latest Successes Of The Objective Study Of The Highest Nervous Activity 329 XXXVII. Relation Between Excitation And Inhibition And Their Delimitations; Experimental Neuroses In Dogs 339 XXXVIII. Effect Of Interrupting The Experimentation In Dogs With Conditioned Reflexes 350 XXXIX. Normal And Pathological States Of The Hemispheres 353 XL. The Inhibitory Type Of Nervous Systems In The Dog 363 XLI. A Physiological Study Of The Types Of Nervous Systems, I.E., Of Temperaments • 370 XLII. Certain Problems In The Physiology Of The Cerebral Hemispheres 379 Bibliography • 395 Index To Names 409 Index To .Subjects 410