ABSTRACT

For the full understanding of the facts brought together in the preceding chapter it will be advisable to explain the significance of repetition in building up the individual engram-store in its general connections. To this task, therefore, we will now address ourselves. The consequences to be deduced for the understanding of homophony will follow of themselves. First, we will ask, How does the repetition of an original excitation act? then, How does the repetition of a mnemic excitation act upon the construction of an individual engram-store?