Word: neurophysiologist
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...measure the extent and nature of that intelligence, Lilly established his unique Dolphin Point Laboratory in the Virgin Islands, and in this intriguing but eccentric book he describes how he has examined and trained dolphins, recorded and analyzed their voices, lived like them-and even with them. Lilly, a neurophysiologist who has also had training in physics and biophysics, has spent hours underwater in a darkened pool, attempting to understand the sensations experienced by dolphins. He believes that dolphins try to communicate with man by mimicking human voices and he has cooperated in experiments trying to teach dolphins to speak...
...PSYCHIC STRESS is probably no more severe now than in the days of the stagecoach and the highwayman, said the University of Michigan's Neurophysiologist Ralph W. Gerard. "It is not long ago that a man, leaving the small safety of his home in the morn ing, ran considerable risk of being robbed or assassinated by ruffians, or jailed or executed by his rulers, before he could return to it. And the home it self was a poor sanctuary from starva tion and disease, from pain and pri vation and death." Things are better now, even for the underprivileged...
...disease, tumors of the brain and spinal cord, and assorted other examples of the 200 human ills loosely classed as neurological. It had already undertaken its first operation, for a temporal-lobe defect causing epilepsy. The 13-member team in the operating room included an electronics engineer, a neurophysiologist, a neuroanesthesiologist, an electroencephalographer, and a behavioral psychologist...
Artistic Huncher. Many mathematicians and computer designers agree with Williams, though seldom in as colorful words. But experts on the human brain tend to doubt that machines will ever match it in creative thought, its highest attribute. Says Neurophysiologist Gerhard Werner of Cornell Medical College: "When you talk about deductive reasoning (making judgments on the basis of given facts), I agree that the computers will undoubtedly be faster than a human brain, more efficient, and come up with the right answers. But in the field of inductive reasoning, I do not think machines will ever compete. When scientists formulate their...
...John C. Lilly, a deep-chested, suntanned neurophysiologist, has spent a good part of the last four years trying to talk to bottle-nosed dolphins (Tursiops trnncatus), more popularly known as porpoises. So far, he has not found a common language, but already he is convinced that dolphins are far and away the most intelligent beasts on earth. Last week Dr. Lilly, 44, was hard at work supervising an elaborate new system of jetties and pools that he is constructing, partly with money supplied by the Navy, on a bay six miles from Charlotte Amalie, in the Virgin Islands...