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Excerpt from The Psychological Review, Vol. 3: Monograph Supplements, 1899-1901Inhibition, from the point of view of the physiologist, is a definite, positive process that takes place either in nerve fibers and centers or in the tissue itself. SinceMoreExcerpt from The Psychological Review, Vol. 3: Monograph Supplements, 1899-1901Inhibition, from the point of view of the physiologist, is a definite, positive process that takes place either in nerve fibers and centers or in the tissue itself. Since the discovery by Edward Weber of the fact that nerve stimulation can produce restraint as well as excitement of an organ, many investigations have been made and many theories proposed to explain it. The general conception of inhibition for the physiologist may be expressed somewhat as follows: Inhibition is arrest of the function of an organ by the action upon it of another organ, or by another function of the same organ, while its power to execute the arrested function is retained, and can manifest itself as soon as the restraining power is removed.Two processes then are necessary in any phenomenon of inhibition, the process inhibited and the process inhibiting.The phenomenon of inhibition may be considered as due to a special process, or as the result arising from the conflict of the different active processes of the body. In the first case there may be a special set of brain centers and nerve fibers whose function is merely that of arresting activity. Or, the brain centers may be arranged in such a way that each center is constantly under the inhibitive influences of higher centers. Or, some characteristic of the tissue itself brings about a condition in which it ceases to respond to stimulation. In the second case there is no process of inhibition as such.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully- any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. The Psychological Review, Vol. 3: Monograph Supplements, 1899-1901 by J Mark Baldwin
