Word: cerebrograph
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...days late, hurried through two piano rehearsals and one with orchestra. He was not worried about his own role of Tristan-although he had found Wagnerian themes "strange for the Latin ear." He had helped himself to memorize his role by sleeping with the speaker of a cerebrograph (automatic record player) under his pillow to embed the music in his subconscious. But, not knowing German itself, he expected to have a dreadful time following the other singers and catching his cues. Flagstad ("She was always there prompting me or giving me a signal with her eyes") took care of that...
...Logopedics in Wichita, Kans. is experimenting to see if it will help cure speech defects. For two years, Charles R. Elliott, psychologist at the University of North Carolina, ran tests with another pillow-mike apparatus which its inventor, bubbly little President Max Sherover of the Linguaphone Institute, calls a "cerebrograph." Psychologist Elliott found that a student who has been subjected to the cerebrograph can memorize a list of words (boy, egg, art, say, run, not, sir ...) faster than one who hasn...
Elliott and Sherover think the cerebrograph can be used to teach multiplication tables, chemical formulas, Morse code, logarithms, vocabularies. Eventually Sherover hopes to market his invention. "After all," says he, "a man spends one-third of his time asleep. This machine will add years to your life...
Pillow Mike. Sherover revived his interest in the cerebrograph when his eight-year-old son had to memorize Hood's The Song of the Shirt for school. After repeating it aloud patiently as his son fell asleep, Sherover was delighted next day to hear the boy babble the poem without a slip. Thus Sherover confirmed what many psychologists had long believed: a dozing person is often more receptive to suggestion than, a wide-awake...
Last week, at the University of North Carolina, Psychologist Charles R. Elliott pronounced himself satisfied with two years of tests on Max Sherover's cerebrograph-a combination record-player, electric clock and pillow microphone. Elliott had selected 15 three-letter words (boy, egg, say, art, run, not, sir, leg, bag, row, ice, out, age, box, eat) and recorded them. Then he picked 40 students, all with perfect hearing, as his guinea pigs...