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Peter B.C. Matthews
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Emeritus Professor of Sensorimotor Physiology, University of Oxford. Author of Mammalian Muscle Receptors and Their Central Actions.

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Diagram of a human figure showing the full nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord, and branching peripheral nerves throughout the body, with labels for each part.
Human nervous system, system that conducts stimuli from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord and conducts impulses back to other parts of the body. The conduction of electrochemical stimuli from sensory receptors occurs via organized groups of specialized cells, consisting largely of…
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