Word: cerebrograph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...