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torybrooks

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on: Jun 20, 2018
One reason that Helmholtz's discovery of the speed of an electrical impulse along a nerve is important is because it showed that:
 
  a. the speed of a neural impulse is greater than 100 miles per hour
  b. Galvani's ideas about nerve impulses was wrong
  c. it is possible to experimentally study the function of the nervous system
  d. instinct theories were wrong

Question 2

The idea that different nerve fibers carry different coded information to and from the brain was known as the:
 
  a. doctrine of interactive dualism
  b. locus of function
  c. doctrine of specific nerve energies
  d. reflex arc of nervous activity


duke02

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

c


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