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Higher reflexes

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The term reflex is used in a broad sense. Reflexes having a drive component are denoted as higher. Four types of higher reflexes are distinguished: avoidance, escape approach and consummately. Each of these reflexes has a different drive component. The result of the reflex is a removal of the corresponding drive. For this purpose three different strategies are used. Complex higher reflexes are usually programmed and occur frequently in a chain form. A given function of an organism is performed by a system of reflexes controlled by one or more drives.

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  1. Department of Neurophysiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland

    Bogusław Zernicki

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Zernicki, B. Higher reflexes. Pav. J. Biol. Sci. 16, 131–139 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03003217

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