单词 | brain vibration |
释义 | > as lemmasbrain vibration brain vibration n. (a) a (supposed) telepathic vibration emanating from the brain (cf. brain wave n. 1a) (now historical); †(b) an electrical discharge in the brain (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > stimulation > [noun] > types of stimulation1733 alcoholization1836 galvanization1860 brain vibration1864 barotaxy1906 microstimulation1946 reafference1953 self-stimulation1961 1864 Amer. Presbyterian & Theol. Rev. Apr. 287 The doctrines of animal spirits and of brain vibrations were turned to similar applications in their time. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. v. 129 Then the last brain-vibration would discharge downward into the motor tracts. 1905 A. R. Wallace My Life II. 309 Thought or brain-vibrations, may be carried by the ether to other brains. 1974 Isis 65 177 A letter appeared in Nature in 1880 signed ‘M.’ in which the author wondered if brain vibrations transmitted through the ether might explain the established facts of thought transference, clairvoyance, and mesmerism. < as lemmas |
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