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IN NATURE of Dec. 14, 1929, there appears a letter from Prof. Alexander Forbes attacking the arguments I have made in criticism of the mechanistic interpretation of reflex functions.1 I believe this challenge ought to be taken up, because it is both courteous and impersonal in tone and because I fear that the well-merited dignity of my critic's name may leiid undue weight to his arguments among those who are unfamiliar with neurology.
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These appear in my book, "Common Principles in Psychology and Physiology".
Psychological Review, vol. 37, p. 1, 1930.
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MAcCurdy, J. Mechanism in Nerve Centres. Nature 125, 632–633 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125632b0
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