阿德里安关于脉冲的优美描写出自他的The Basis of Sensation: The Action of the Sense Organs(London: Christopher, 1928). 关于运动传导的讨论参见E. D. Adrian and D. W. Bronk, “The discharge of impulses in motor nerve fibers. Part I: Impulses in single fibers of the phrenic nerve,” J. Physiol. 66 (1928): 81–101; “运动纤维……”摘自第98页。阿德里安对谢林顿的称赞出自J. C. Eccles and W. C. Gibson, Sherrington: His Life and Thought(Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1979), 第84页。
对于赫尔曼·亥姆霍兹对神经冲动传导、知觉和无意识推断做出的一系列杰出贡献的探讨，参见E. G. Boring, A History of Experimental Psychology, 2nd ed. (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1950).
对于朱利叶斯·伯恩斯坦所做贡献的探讨，参见A. L. Hodgkin, The Conduction of the Nervous Impulse(Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1967); A. Huxley, “Electrical activity in nerve: The background up to 1952,” in The Axon: Structure, Function and Pathophysiology, ed. S. G. Waxman, J. D. Kocsis, and P. K. Stys, 3–10 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995); B. Katz, Nerve, Muscle, Synapse(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966); 和S. M. Schuetze, “The discovery of the action potential,” Trends in Neuroscience6 (1983): 164–68.
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