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epicritic, a. Psychol.|ɛpɪˈkrɪtɪk|
[f. Gr. ἐπικριτικός adjudicatory.]
An epithet used to designate the finer discriminations of the senses, particularly of touch, as contrasted with protopathic. In terms of behaviour, sometimes used to refer to emotional and instinctive forms, as opposed to rational.
1905H. Head et al. in Brain XXVIII. 107 To this form of sensibility we propose to give the name ‘epicritic’, since it is peculiarly associated with the localisation and discrimination of cutaneous stimuli. 1920W. H. R. Rivers Instinct & Unconscious iv. 23 Epicritic sensibility may be only a greater perfection of protopathic sensibility. 1920Discovery Nov. 340/1 From a physiological aspect, the distinction of protopathic from epicritic sensibility is, so far, devoid of neurological basis. 1942Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 61 Head..stipulates expressly that the elaboration of spatial schemata depends upon processes occurring only at the level of epicritic integration. 1966B. Haigh tr. Luria's Higher Cortical Functions ii. 146 A lesion of these cortical areas causes the most persistent disturbances of complex epicritic sensation. |