neurophysiologicaladj.

1844 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 17 423 Should, however, future neuro-physiological researches be as successful as the past,..his first volume will need rewriting before the time his second is finished.

1862 Year-bk. Med. 1861 (New Sydenham Soc.) 43 Neuro-physiological Inquiries.

1903 Amer. Anthropologist 5 607 The fact that certain portions of the cerebrum exhibit different degrees of growth-energy is unquestionably of considerable importance from the neuro-physiological point of view.

1931 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 17 255 Known by whatever name, these three divisions of the autonomic system, unlike the sensori-motor apparatus, which up to the time of Gaskell, Langley and Anderson had largely dominated neurophysiological research, supposedly act upon the glandular structures and smooth muscle of the blood-vessels and viscera through involuntary automatic reflex arcs.

1955 Sci. Amer. May 78/3 What is the neurophysiological mechanism whereby different emotions evoke different adrenal secretions?

1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax 193 It is the mentalistic studies that will ultimately be of greatest value for the investigation of neurophysiological mechanisms.

1992 S. Rose Making of Memory 146 He remained oddly indifferent to the study of any actual neurophysiological processes that might be associated with the formation of reflexes.