Elephants on Acid (32 page)

Shuster, E. (March 16, 1934). “Life-Giving Fluid Is Injected into Dead Dog’s Veins and Breath Breathed into Lungs to Restore Life to Him.”
The Burlington (N.C.) Daily Times-News:
8.

THE TWO-HEADED DOGS OF DR DEMIKHOV

Mosby, A. (April 26, 1959). “Two-Headed Russian Dog Displayed for Reporters.”
Nevada State Journal:
8.

FRANKEN-MONKEY

Fallaci, O. (November 28, 1967). “The Dead Body & the Living Brain.”
Look:
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White, R. J., et al. (1996). “The isolation and transplantation of the brain. An historical perspective emphasizing the surgical solutions to the design of these classical models.”
Neurological Research
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Two: Sensorama

THE MOCK-TICKLE MACHINE

Harris, C. R. (1999). “The Mystery of Ticklish Laughter.”
American Scientist
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TOUCHING STRANGERS

Hornik, J. (1992). “Tactile Stimulation and Consumer Response.”
The Journal of Consumer Research
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Ovesen, L. (2004). “The Midas touch and other tipping stunts.”
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Silverthorne, C. (1972). “The Effects of Tactile Stimulation on Visual Experience.”
Journal of Social Psychology
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Stephen, R., & R. L. Zweigenhaft (1986). “The Effect of Tipping of a Waitress Touching Male and Female Customers.”
Journal of Social Psychology
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WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

Sage, A. (January 14, 2002). “Cheeky little test exposes wine ‘experts’ as weak and flat.”
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(London).

Zwerdling, D. (August 2004). “Shattered Myths.”
Gourmet:
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COKE VS. PEPSI

Thompson, C. (October 26, 2003). “There’s a Sucker Born in Every Medial Prefrontal Cortex.”
New York Times Magazine:
54–57.

SYCHRONOUS MENSTRUATION (THE SCENT OF A WOMAN)

Horn, M. (1999).
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’69. New York: Times Books. 123–32.

Stern, K., & M. K. McClintock (1998). “Regulation of Ovulation by Human Pheromones.”
Nature
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Wright, K. (1994). “The Sniff of Legend; Human Pheromones? Chemical Sex Attractants? And a Sixth Sense Organ in the Nose? What Are We, Animals?”
Discover
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THE SMELL OF MONEY

Kleinfield, N. R. (October 25, 1992). “The Smell of Money.”
New York Times:
VI, 8.

Trivedi, B. (2006). “The Hard Smell.”
New Scientist
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SMELL ILLUSIONS

De Araujo, I. E., E. T. Rolls, M. I. Velazco, C. Margot, & I. Cayeux (2005). “Cognitive Modulation of Olfactory Processing.”
Neuron
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Slosson, E. E. (1899). “A Lecture Experiment in Hallucinations.”
Psychological Review
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THE INVISIBLE GORILLA

Simons, D. J., & D. T. Levin (1998). “Failure to Detect Changes to People During a Real-World Interaction.”
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
5 (4): 644–49.

THE MOZART EFFECT

Bangerter, A., & C. Heath (2004). “The Mozart Effect: Tracking the Evolution of a Scientific Legend.”
British Journal of Social Psychology
43: 605–23.

Chabris, C. F. (1999). “Prelude or Requiem for the ‘Mozart Effect’?”
Nature
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Hetland, L. (2000). “Listening to Music Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning: Evidence for the ‘Mozart Effect.’”
Journal of Aesthetic Education
34 (3/4): 105–48.

THE ACOUSTICS OF COCKTAIL PARTIES

Lebo, C. P., K. S. Oliphant, & J. Garrett (1967). “Acoustic Trauma from Rock-and-Roll Music.”
California Medicine
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MacLean, W. R. (1959). “On the Acoustics of Cocktail Parties.”
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
31 (1): 79–80.

Three: Total Recall

ELECTRIC RECALL

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American Psychologist
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Penfield, W. (1958). “Some Mechanisms of Consciousness Discovered during Electrical Stimulation of the Brain.”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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Valenstein, E. S. (1973).
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ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET

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Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
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Rensch, B. (1956). “Increase of Learning Capability with Increase of Brain-Size.”
The American Naturalist
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THE MEMORY SKILLS OF COCKTAIL WAITRESSES

Ingram, J. (2000).
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. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company.

UNDERWATER MEMORY

Godden, D., & A. Baddeley (1980). “When Does Context Influence Recognition Memory?”
British Journal of Psychology
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Koens, F., O. T. J. T. Cate, & E. J. F. M. Custers (2003). “Context- Dependent Memory in a Meaningful Environment for Medical Education: In the Classroom and at the Bedside.”
Advances in Health Sciences Education
8: 155–65.

EDIBLE MEMORY

Bird, J. (March 28, 1964). “The Worm Learns.”
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Gratzer, W. (2000).
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Rilling, M. (1996). “The Mystery of the Vanished Citations: James McConnell’s Forgotten 1960s Quest for Planarian Learning, a Biochemical Engram, and Celebrity.”
American Psychologist
51 (6): 589–98.

Travis, G. D. L. (1981). “Replicating Replication? Aspects of the Social Construction of Learning in Planarian Worms.”
Social Studies of Science
11 (1): 11–32.

Ungar, G., L. Galvan, & G. Chapouthier (1972). “Evidence for Chemical Coding of Color Discrimination in Goldfish Brain.”
Experientia
28 (9): 1026–27.

BENEFICIAL BRAINWASHING

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Collins, A. (1997).
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Gillmor, D. (1987).
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Marks, J. (1979).
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THE WHITE BEAR

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Wegner, D. M., & D. J. Schneider (2003). “The White Bear Story.”
Psychological Inquiry
14 (3&4): 326–29.

LOST IN THE MALL

Loftus, E. F., & K. Ketcham (1996).
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. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin.

Neimark, J. (1996). “The Diva of Disclosure.”
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Four: Bedtime Stories

Martin, P. (2004).
Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

SLEEP LEARNING

“Deeper . . . Deeper . . . Dee . . .” (March 20, 1950).
Time:
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Elliott, C. R. (1947). “An Experimental Study of the Retention of Auditory Material Presented During Sleep.” Unpublished master’s thesis, University of North Carolina.

Emmons, W. H., & C. W. Simon (1956). “The Non-recall of Material Presented during Sleep.”
The American Journal of Psychology
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Fox, B. H., & J. S. Robbin (1952). “The Retention of Material Presented during Sleep.”
Journal of Experimental Psychology
43: 75–79.

“He Teaches Frogs to Lose Hangups.” (December 17, 1972).
The Daily Review
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“Learning while you sleep method eases home work.” (September 6, 1955).
Albuquerque Journal:
26.

ELEVEN DAYS AWAKE

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Dement, W. C. (1974).
Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep
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Patrick, G. T. W., & J. A. Gilbert (1896). “On the Effects of Loss of Sleep.”
The Psychological Review
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LET SLEEPING CATS HUNT

Brown, C. (February 2, 2003). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Deer.”
New York Times Magazine:
34–41, 53, 72, 79, 82, 83.

Jouvet, M. (1967). “The States of Sleep.”
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Hendricks, J. C., A. R. Morrison, & G. L. Mann (1982). “Different behaviors during paradoxical sleep without atonia depend on pontine lesion site.”
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Henley, K., & A. R. Morrison (1974). “A re-evaluation of the effects of lesions of the pontine tegmentum and locus coeruleus on phenomena of paradoxical sleep in the cat.”
Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis
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WHAT DREAMS MAY COME

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Five: Animal Tales

ELEPHANTS ON ACID

Conley, C. (August 4, 1962). “Shot of Drug Kills Tusko.”
Daily Oklahoman:
1–2.

“Elephant Dies from New Drug” (August 5, 1962).
Appleton Post-Crescent:
A2.

“Fatal Research: Drug Kills Elephant Guinea Pig” (August 4, 1962).
Long Beach Press-Telegram:
B12.

Harwood, P. D. (1963). “Therapeutic Dosage in Small and Large Mammals.”
Science
139 (3555): 684–85.

Koella, W. P., R. F. Beaulieu, & J. R. Bergen (1964). “Stereotyped behavior and cyclic changes in response produced by LSD.”
International Journal of Neuropharmacology
3: 397–403.

Lemov, R. (2005).
World as Laboratory: Mice, Mazes, and Men
. New York: Hill and Wang. Chapter 10.

“LSD Related Death of an Elephant” (August 16, 2002). Erowid. Available online at:
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“The Maestro of ‘Mind-Control’ Continues to Haunt America.”
Freedom Magazine
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Siegel, R. K. (1984). “LSD-Induced Effects in Elephants: Comparisons with Musth Behavior.”
Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society
22 (1): 53–56.

Siegel, R. K., & M. E. Jarvik (1975). “Drug-Induced Hallucinations in Animals and Man.” In Siegel, R. K., & L. J. West, eds.
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RACING ROACHES