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