Biology and Neurophysiology of the Conditioned Reflex and Its Role in Adaptive Behavior

International Series of Monographs in Cerebrovisceral and Behavioral Physiology and Conditioned Reflexes, Volume 3

Peter K. Anokhin, Samuel A. Corson

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780080171609
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483157221
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Neurology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Biology and Neurophysiology of the Conditioned Reflex and its Role in Adaptive Behavior explores the conditioned reflex, its historic development, and its functions and roles. The book also aims to bridge the gap between the integrative level of higher nervous activity and fine detailed neurophysiological investigations, giving light to the basis of the term "learning. The book, as an introduction, covers the biological roots of the conditioned reflex and the nature of the unconditioned reflex, then moves on to the different bases, hypotheses, and theories of both the coupling of the conditioned reflex; the physiological architecture of the behavioral act; the mechanism of action and function of conditioned inhibition function; and certain correlations in the study of this phenomenon. The text is recommended for biologists, zoologists, psychologists, and neuroscientists from different backgrounds who wish to know more about how the conditioned reflex, and ultimately learning, came about.

Table of contents

• Front Page
• Biology and Neurophysiology of the Conditioned Reflex and its Role in Adaptive Behavior
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Editor's Preface
• Author's Preface to the English-Language Edition
• Author's Preface to the Russian Edition
• Foreword to the English-Language Edition
• CHAPTER 1. The Biological Roots of the Conditioned Reflex
• CHAPTER 2. The Nature of the Unconditioned Reflex
• CHAPTER 3. Systemogenesis as an Evolutionary Basis for the Development of Unconditioned Reflexes
• CHAPTER 4. Recent Theories on the Coupling of the Conditioned Reflex
• CHAPTER 5. The Hypothesis of the Convergent Coupling of the Conditioned Reflex
• CHAPTER 6. The Functional System as a Basis of the Physiological Architecture of the Behavioral Act
• CHAPTER 7. Conditioned (Internal) Inhibition: Statement of the Problem and Approaches to Its Solution
• CHAPTER 8. The Concepts of Sechenov, Vvedenskii, and Ukhtomskii Concerning the Origin of Inhibition in the Central Nervous System
• CHAPTER 9. Inhibition as a Function of the Organism as a Whole
• CHAPTER 10. Current Concepts Concerning the Nature of Inhibition
• CHAPTER 11. The Nature of the Interaction of Two Excitations in the Central Nervous System
• CHAPTER 12. The Mechanisms of the Origin of Conditioned Inhibition
• CHAPTER 13. The Physiological Characteristics of Biologically Positive and Biologically Negative Reactions of Animals
• CHAPTER 14. The Vegetative Components of the Conditioned Reflex as Indices of Interaction of Integrated Activities of the Organism
• CHAPTER 15. The Problem of the Localization of Internal Inhibition in the Cerebral Cortex
• CHAPTER 16. The Mechanisms of the Patterning of the Conditioned Reaction as an Integrated Activity of the Organism
• CHAPTER 17. The Inhibitory Effect of the Cerebral Cortex on Subcortical Activity
• CHAPTER 18. The Theory of the Dominant and Its Relation to Higher Nervous Activity
• CHAPTER 19. The Problem of the "Irradiation of Inhibition"
• CHAPTER 20. The Conflict Between Excitation and Inhibition and the Origin of Neurotic Conditions
• CHAPTER 21. Sleep and Sleeplike States
• CHAPTER 22. Certain Correlations in the Study of Conditioned Inhibition
• Conclusion
• Glossary of Pavlovian Terminology
• Bibliography
• Index