The Senses and the Intellect

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J. W. Parker, 1855 - 614 من الصفحات
 

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Parts of the NERVOUS SYSTEM
15
Circumstances favouring the cohesion of feelings
18
Nerve force is of the nature of a current
22
The presence of an emotional element in intellectual
23
Combination of Colour and Form the pictorial mind
24
Plan of Structure indicated by the arrangement of white
28
Successions of Human History historical comparisons
31
Process of perceiving the true Magnitude and Distance
39
Some of the Fine Arts involve the intellect largely
44
Automatic or reflex actions and their centres
50
Experiments on the convolutions
58
Natural persistence of mental movements once begun
59
A current action is involved in every exertion of the brain
61
Acquisition of vocal music
65
OF SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY AND THE FEELINGS OF MOVEMENT
67
OF THE MUSCULAR FEELINGS
69
The experimental and concrete sciences
71
their mode of adhesion
76
Classification of Feelings of Movement
81
Muscular Tissue
85
Feelings of muscular fatigue
91
Examples of dead tension
100
Passive movements
106
Discrimination of the degree of contraction in a muscle
113
Sensibility of Muscle
114
Objects of Sight
119
Summary of the Physiology of digestion
139
Feelings of Electrical States PAGE 19 Electric and Voltaic shocks
145
Electrical state of the Atmosphere
146
SENSE OF TASTE 1 Bodies acting on the sense of Taste
147
Organ of Tastedescription of the Tongue
149
Local distribution of the sensibility of the tongue
150
Mode of action in taste
151
Sensations of Tastecomplex sensibility of the tongue
152
Order of Classification
153
Relishes ib 8 Disgusts
154
Bitter tastes
156
Saline tastes ib 12 Alkaline tastes
157
Fiery tastes ib 16 Intellectual aspect of tastes
158
Development of odours
160
Diffusion of odours
161
description of the Nose ib 5 Action of odours
163
their classification
164
Fresh odours
165
Conditions of perfect vision
205
Motionspectacle of moving objects
239
Solid effect
245
Exercise and Repose
251
Functions of the Cerebellum
257
This implies an arrangement for reciprocating each limb
263
Movements and effects diffused by Emotion
272
Blushing
284
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293
Anatomy of the organ of voice
299
The articulate voice
306
General characters that distinguish the Intellect
315
Acquisition of combined movements
321
Harmony of colours
350
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352
Circumstances affecting the adhesive growth of visible
359
Meaning or import of Extension
367
Lustre
370
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In remembering states of emotion there is often a per
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NATURAL OBJECTSAGGREGATES OF NATURAL QUALITIES
411
Harmonizing and coordinating the locomotive move
418
Tonicity or Tonic Contraction of muscle
432
2 Special sensibility for the effects called artistic
441
General observations on the force of contiguous adhesion
448
The obstructives are either Faintness or Diversity
455
Spontaneity and the volitional impulse of feeling belong
499
Of identities some are real others illustrative
501
James Watt
525
Comparison an aid to intellectual comprehension
532
SIMILARITY IN ACQUISITION AND MEMORY
538
CHAPTER III
544
the succession of Order in Time
552
An emotional state gives its character to the trains
557
Selection of one out of many properties of the same object
563
The force of similarity tends to consistency
569
Fulfilment of the conditions of grammar c
575
Construction of inexperienced ideas of weight range c
577
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EMOTIONS
584
REALISING OF REPRESENTATION OR DESCRIPTION
590
The mental quality termed soundness of Judgment
597
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611
Discrimination of velocity of movement 116
612

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