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Great Quotes in Neuroscience

J. A. Kiernan jkiernan at julian.uwo.ca
Wed May 22 09:07:00 EST 1996


In article <v02130503adc7189c74a2@[164.67.22.120]> jwoodson at ucla.edu (
James Woodson) writes:
>                I'm in the process of compiling a collection of great
>quotes in Psychology, Neuroscience, etc., and hope that you can help me ...

  "That which is most characteristic of human cortical activity
   is just that flexibility or plasticity of organization which 
   facilitates the formation of innumerable transient association
   patterns which have no enduring quality."


   I don't know if it's "great" or not, but it's from a great
   neuroanatomist:
   C. Judson Herrick (1926) Brains of Rats and Men. Univ. of Chicago
   Press, p. 349.
                                     John A. Kiernan
                                     Department of Anatomy
                                     Univ. of Western Ontario
                                     LONDON, Canada  N6A 5C1
                                     e-mail: kiernan at uwo.ca




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