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merits the same plienomenoti manifests itself. The intensest associated 

 movements persist longest. Thej display a much greater resistance 

 to the inhibitor!. Thei'e are people with whom some associated 

 inoveinents persist thi'oiigh life e.g. the month-movements when thej 

 are using scissors. 



Associations are also promoted by the intensity of the associating 

 idea. Memory-images will be r-epr-oduced the more readily according 

 as the associating idea is more intense and distinct. Experience e.g. 

 teaches us that visual, arrd auditory sensatiorrs ar-ouse associations 

 sooner and more distinctly than the vague olfactory, and gustator-y 

 sensations. We can observe a sinrilar phenomenon in the associated 

 movements. The curves obtained from the above experiments go to 

 show that, when the movement of the oire leg is iirterfered with 

 by a weight thus inciting the subject to greater exertion, the asso- 

 ciated movements of the other leg also increases. 



In curve II the weighting of both the paretic, and the normal 

 leg consider-ably incr-eased the associated movemerrts on either side. 

 When, as in curve III the weight is ver-y heavy, the demand upon 

 the paretic leg is so great, that the ensuing associated movement 

 of the normal leg does rrot differ much from that of the paretic leg. 

 Curves 1 and II also demonstrate that, with a series of movemerrts 

 of the par-etic leg the associated movements of the normal leg 

 irrcrease in magnitude. This is due to a greater demand uporr the 

 paretic leg consequent on fatigue. 



The associatiorrs of the phenomena of consciousness can also be 

 inhibited. Here agairr the associated movements exhibit analogous 

 phenomena. As knowrr, the association of the phenomena of con- 

 sciousness is interfered with by co-existing complexes of conscious- 

 ness and the degree of the interference depends on their homogeneiiy. 

 The reproduction of visual ideas is counterected by other sight- 

 experiences in a higher degree than e.g. by auditory experiences. 

 In forming a visual image of a situation, we shut our eyes. Speaking 

 a foreign language is mor-e difficult than to read it, because the 

 word in our native torrgue ai'orrses marry associations which act 

 inhibitively, whereas the foreign word awakens no other associatiorrs 

 tharr those called up by the native woi-d. It is just the same with 

 the associated movemerrts. The impulses exciting them, are ousted 

 already by the co-existirrg effererrt inrpulses of the position reflexes. 

 It is evidejrt, that also her-e there is an analogy to the inhibition 

 exerted upon sight-associations by other visual impressions, and to 

 the inhibition, exerted by the multitude of associations, upon our 

 efforts to speak a foreign language. 



