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This article presents information on fourth annual meeting of Society for neuroscience which will held between October 20-23, in St. Louis, Missouri. Symposia, state-of-the-art sessions, in-depth panel explorations, dinner discussion groups, and volunteer paper sessions will cover a broad range of neuroscientific subjects. A special demonstration covering the use of computers in the neurosciences is also planned in cooperation with the Washington University School of Medicine.

The article presents announcement on events related to psychophysiology as of May 1972. From October 3-6, 1972, the First European Congress on Sleep Research will take place in Basel, Switzerland, under the auspices of the newly founded European Sleep Society. It is planned to have presentations by three or four principal speakers, to arrange four to five symposia on topics in sleep research and to organize a number of sessions for 10-15 minutes free communications. The contact information for this event has been provided along with the article. Another event on the same topic is scheduled to be held from October 8-11, 1972. The Second Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience will be held in Houston, Texas at the Shamrock Hilton Hotel. The meetings are sponsored by the Society for Neuroscience which is an association of scientists whose common aim is an understanding of the function of nervous systems and how they control behavior. Contact address for the conference has been provided in the article.

Investigators have traditionally assumed that the kinesthetic after effects (KAE) procedure measures individuals' tendencies either to augment or to reduce the impact of incoming stimulation. Strikingly, this putative difference between individuals is one of the bases of Pavlov's typology: Pavlov maintained that individuals with "strong" nervous systems resist incoming stimuli, individuals with "weak' nervous systems are particularly sensitive to stimuli. The present study supports the usual interpretation of the KAE task by indicating significant relationships between it and three measures of "strength of the nervous system." The present data also have a practical implication: Since the KAE procedure has recently undergone strong methodological attacks, these results suggest that an investigator interested in the construct in question (tendencies to augment or reduce stimuli) can employ the measures of strength rather than the KAE method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]