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Principles of physiological psychology

"This book is an attempt to show the connection between two sciences whose subject-matters are closely interrelated, but which have, for the most part, followed wholly divergent paths. Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life. Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present themselves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world. Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnection of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer from such manifestations of the bodily life in other creatures as indicate the presence of a consciousness similar to our own. Major topics discussed include: (1) the organic evolution of mental function; (2) structural elements of the nervous system; (3) physiological mechanics of nerve substance; (4) morphological development of the central organs; (5) course of the paths of nervous conduction; and (6) physiological function of the central parts." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

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