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Response to the letter by Dr Karemaker

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By Alexandru Barboi, Vaughan G. Macefield
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Handling Editors: Laura Bennet & Beth Habecker Barboi, A.C. and Macefield, V.G. (2026), Response to the letter by Dr Karemaker. J Physiol. https://doi.org/10.1113/JP291260 No abstract is available for this article. Supporting Information Filename Description tjp70481-sup-0001-PeerReview.pdf184.3 KB Peer Review History References , & (2025). The autonomic nervous system: Time for a conceptual reframing? The Journal of Physiology, 603, 6719–6731. , , , , , , , , , & (2022).
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Automatic/nomic nervous systems: Response to ‘The autonomic nervous system concept at the heart of the matter’

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By Vaughan G. Macefield, Alexandru Barboi
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We read with interest the Letter by Professor Lennart Bergfeldt regarding our review article – ‘The autonomic nervous system: time for a conceptual reframing?’ – that was recently published in the Journal of Physiology (Barboi & Macefield, 2025).
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The autonomic nervous system: Time for a conceptual reframing?

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By Alexandru Barboi, Vaughan G. Macefield
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Is the concept of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), proposed 127 years ago, still valid? Scientific concepts are not experimentally obtained facts but forms of language representation that make assertions about structural and relational properties in nature. Like any concept, the concept of the ANS contains true, false and logical probability statements (Popper 1979).
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