Physiological Psychology

Progress in Physiological Psychology

This book appears to be the first of a series of books published by Academic Press and is listed as Volume 1. There is a similarly bound book edited by Roger Russell entitled Frontiers in Physiological Psychology published by Academic Press, but the publishers give no indication that it might be a volume in the same series as this one. Any book of contributed articles such as this runs the risk...

Physiological Psychology PSYC370

A Textbook of Physiological Psychology

Among the recent of the hybrid biomedical sciences, physiological psychology is gaining increasing interest. This is reflected in the establishment of new university courses in the subject, although there are few texts now available to meet the requirements of such courses. It is the aim of the present book to do this by giving in one volume a general introduction and a comprehensive treatment ...

The physiological psychology of hunger: a physiological perspective.

Hunger and satiety are usually discussed from the perspective of the central nervous system. In this paper we instead find the foundation for an understanding of hunger in the basic biochemical and physiological processes of energy metabolism. Such considerations suggest that the stimulus for hunger should be sought among changes that occur in the supply of metabolic fuels rather than in the ut...

Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology

The oral stimulation arising from food in the mouth produces a stereotyped sequence of ingestive consummatory responses in rats and a rapid release of insulin prior to the absorption of nutrients into the blood. Conversely, when noxious taste stimuli are infused into the mouth, a different, aversive set of consummatory responses is evoked, and no insulin is released. These experiments demonstra...