Transfer from one cortical point to another using an imbedded electrode technic.
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Abstract
Lashley has maintained that the problem of stimulus equivalence is
of prime concern both to the neurophysiologist and the physiological
psychologist. This stand becomes eminently justifiable when it is noted
that stimulus equivalence is a limiting case of the more general phenomenon
of stimulus generalization. That is, stimulus equivalence is
tantamount to stimulus generalisation with a flat gradient.
Both Lashley and Hebb have suggested theories to account for stimulus
equivalence. Lashley's theory employs the concept of sensory equipotentiality.
This concept implies that if an association is formed to a pattern
of activity within a particular part of a sensory projection area (e.g., the
visual projection area) the elicitation of that pattern in some other part
of the sensory projection area will evoke the same associated response, even
though that particular portion had never been previously stimulated. Lashley's
concept thus provides for stimulus equivalence by some innate property of
the nervous system. [TRUNCATED]
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