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Plasticity of Mammalian Monosynaptic Reflexes

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ECCLES, J., McINTYRE, A. Plasticity of Mammalian Monosynaptic Reflexes. Nature 167, 466–468 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167466a0

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