Armando Menicacci wrote:
>> As a musicologist, medicine and biology are not my cup of tea: i'm looking
> for information about a very important physiologist: Charles Scott
> Sherrington (1857-1952, nobel prize 1932)
> I'm looking for someone to tell me where he spoke about _common final
> way_. Apparently he said everything is movement (muscular or chemical).
> I'd really appreciate any help, Sherrington books are very rare in France.
It's "final common path", referring to the fact that all neurophysiological
processes must eventually converge on motoneurons (specifically, he intends these
to be spinal motoneurons, although a great deal of motor activity is controlled
by non-spinal motoneurons).
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