Word: cerebrograph
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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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...
...learn their lessons through "hypnopaedia" (sleep-teaching), a less talented novelist wrote a book with a similar idea. It never broke into print: New York publishers thought it too badly written and too fantastic. In the novel, an ambitious man made himself ruler of the world by inventing a "cerebrograph" (mind-writer), which taught people while they slept. Author Max Sherover abandoned the novel, but not the idea...
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...