Descartes Reflex Act
Reflex acts were one of the first human reactions to being studied. Descartes was the first beginning a study model of reflex acts, this to be able to demonstrate that the body worked like any other machine. Another scientist in studying this phenomenon, Robert Whytt. He was a Scottish physicist and physicist. He inclined his research around action-reflex, differentiating voluntary and involuntary movements. Describing the pupil reflex to light (reflecting Whytt), he further proposed that the arches of the spinal cord were interconnected and interacted in the production of coordinated movement. It was the first to demonstrate using the technique of progressive extirpation, thus giving the idea of a central organ (nervous system), capable of
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This experiment also showed that the production of the reflex does not depend on the marrow as a whole since to produce it is
Preserving a small cord segment. The sensuous anima, which he called the sentient principle, would be found located in the brain and spinal cord. He further proposed that the arches were interconnected and that they interacted in the production of the coordinated movement. His ideas expounded them in On the Reflex Function of the Medulla Oblongata and the Medulla Spinalis, and On the True Spinal Marrow, and the eExcitomotor system of n erves.
It may be observed that even in the most rudimentary acts, reflexes, considered before as a mechanical response to excitation, are discovered by physiologists, an intrinsic purpose sufficient to indicate that in them the mental character begins with their specific character. The defensive positions, implicit in the reflexes that reveal an inner impulse. They are also discovered in other irreflexive and involuntary acts (contraction of physiognomy, blushing, etcetera), and acquire undeniable subsistence in the volunteers, where there already appears all the quality of mind that directs with conscience and freedom the inner impulses, according to type Ideal that in the representation conserves of the elements offered by
This experiment also showed that the production of the reflex does not depend on the marrow as a whole since to produce it is
Preserving a small cord segment. The sensuous anima, which he called the sentient principle, would be found located in the brain and spinal cord. He further proposed that the arches were interconnected and that they interacted in the production of the coordinated movement. His ideas expounded them in On the Reflex Function of the Medulla Oblongata and the Medulla Spinalis, and On the True Spinal Marrow, and the eExcitomotor system of n erves.
It may be observed that even in the most rudimentary acts, reflexes, considered before as a mechanical response to excitation, are discovered by physiologists, an intrinsic purpose sufficient to indicate that in them the mental character begins with their specific character. The defensive positions, implicit in the reflexes that reveal an inner impulse. They are also discovered in other irreflexive and involuntary acts (contraction of physiognomy, blushing, etcetera), and acquire undeniable subsistence in the volunteers, where there already appears all the quality of mind that directs with conscience and freedom the inner impulses, according to type Ideal that in the representation conserves of the elements offered by