spinal animal

a nonhuman animal whose spinal cord has been surgically severed and therefore separated from communication with its brain, so that peripheral processes of the body are controlled only by the spinal cord and nerves.

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May 9th 2024

Estes–Skinner procedure

another name for conditioned suppression. [after William K. Estes and B. F. Skinner, who developed the technique in 1941]