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  1. Reflexes of Standing (1978 Film)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Demonstrates the reflexes involved in the complex act of standing. Includes reactions to loading a single muscle, reactions involving several muscles in the same limb, weight-bearing reactions involving more...

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  2. Perimetry in Normal and Monocularly Pattern-Deprived Cats (1974 Film)

    Subject
    Biology; Psychology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The methods shown were developed during study of the effects of monocular visual deprivation. From the age of eight months the cats were forced to use their deprived eye. The cat is conditioned to a noise...

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  3. Reflexes of Balance (1974 Film)

    Director
    Peter Coltman
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes the interacting reflexes concerned in the maintenance of the upright posture. How the forces acting on the otolith organs are detected, and how positional reflexes from the labyrinth are combined...

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  4. Vision, Movement and Balance (1974 Film)

    Producer
    Eric Lucey
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Demonstrates that the detection of body movement, normally considered to be a function of proprioceptors, is in fact mediated to a very significant extent by visual feedback. The concept to the ‘optic flow...

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  5. Visuomotor Reactions in Normal and Monocularly Pattern-Deprived Cats (1974 Film)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Monocular pattern-deprivation was achieved by eyelid suturing of one eye at the time of natural eye-opening. When the cats were about eight months old they were forced to use their deprived eye by means of a...

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  6. Development in the Visual Cortex (1973 Video)

    Producer
    David Rowan
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 9 min.

    Presents the results of Dr Colin Blakemore’s 1970s’ research on plasticity of neuronal responses in the visual cortex. Describes the concept of a ‘sensitive period’ in visual development by reference...

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  7. Exercise in Operant Conditioning (1973 Film)

    Director
    Leon Aarons
    Subject
    Biology; Psychology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Rats on 24-hour water deprivation acquire lever pressing response on continuous and fixed ratio schedules. Discrimination and marble handling responses are also shaped. Demonstrates rewarding of increasing...

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  8. Visual Input and Orientation in the Octopus (1973 Film)

    aka: Optomotor Responses in a Cephalopod2

    Director
    Eric Lucey
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Andrew Packard, of the Zoological Gardens in Naples, gives a series of demonstrations of the effects on the baby octopus of rotating visual fields.

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  9. Lateral Inhibition in the Retina (1972 Film, Video)

    Producer
    David Rowan
    Subject
    Biology; Psychology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The types of cell in the cat’s retina and their basic actions are explained with the help of an animated diagram. Extracellular microelectrode recording from the axon of the ganglion cell is then shown....

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  10. Recording from Single Neurons (1972 Film)

    Producer
    David Rowan
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the positioning of a microelectrode for extracellular recording from the cortex of a cat. Shows the actual operation performed to gain access to the brain. Using a diagram, coveres the principles of...

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