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Docs Detail CIA's Cold War Hypnosis Push

By Otto on December 28, 2010 12:37 PM | 0 Comments

"It was an innocent time, the mid-1950s. America wasn't yet cynical about its geopolitical games in the Cold War. Case in point: In order to maintain its spying edge over the Russkies, the CIA considered the benefits of hypnosis."

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/12/cia-hypnosis/

How Weird Is Consciousness?

By Otto on November 30, 2010 4:33 PM | 1 Comment

"Consciousness used to be the crazy aunt in psychology's attic. Behaviorists and cognitive scientists alike practiced denial, but the squeaking floorboards troubled our dreams of a truly scientific discipline. Now, the old lady has been given pride of place in the parlor, with all the respectable scientific furnishing of societies and journals. But let's face it--she's still weird."

http://www.slate.com/id/2275645/pagenum/all/

 

Synaesthesia - A Window into Perception, Thought and Language

By Otto on October 5, 2010 12:30 PM | 1 Comment

V.S. Ramachandran

Journal of Consciousness Studies, 8, No. 12, 2001, pp. 3-34

V.S. Ramachandran and E.M. Hubbard 
Synaesthesia - A Window into Perception, Thought and Language
 
 

Abstract: We investigated grapheme-colour synaesthesia and found that: 
(1) The induced colours led to perceptual grouping and pop-out, 
(2) a grapheme rendered invisible through 'crowding' or lateral masking induced synaesthetic colours--a form of blindsight--and 
(3) peripherally presented graphemes did not induce colours even when they were clearly visible. 

http://www.uboeschenstein.ch/sal/ramachandran.html

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