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Shunning the Dark. The announcement was made by Hungarian-born Neurochemist Georges Ungar, 64, who has spent years experimenting with memory transfer. In his most notable experiment (TIME, April 19, 1968), he jolted rats and mice with an electrical shock whenever they strayed into a blacked-out box, eventually conditioning them to fear the dark. Then, after decapitating his fear-trained animals, he injected a broth made out of their brain tissue into the abdominal cavities of normal mice, which ordinarily prefer the dark. More often than not, he found, the injected rodents-contrary to their nature-also began...
...ANTONIO UNGAR Princeton...
...Neil Simon comedy that lit up Broadway for more than two years shines again in this flawed but still funny screen adaptation. Heading for divorce, Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon) is a casualty of the war between the sexes. The same calamity befell his old pal Oscar, an alimony-poor sportswriter with a rambling eight-room flat on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Out of pity and penury, he invites Felix to share his lair. At this point Simon pulls the switch that brightens the screen: the partnership becomes a parody of a failing marriage. Oscar is the kind of host...
...Ungar then decapitated his fear-trained rats, and prepared an extract from their brains. He injected the extract into the brains of the untrained animals and found that the untrained mice began to shun darkness. The average time that members of one group spent in the dark box declined to 98 seconds when each was injected with three-tenths of a gram of extract. It went down to 67 seconds when the injection was increased to six-tenths of a gram, and to only 24 seconds when a full gram was administered. Other groups injected with extracts from the brains...
...Connections. After many such tests, Ungar concluded that the fear had indeed been transferred and that the degree of transfer depended on the amount of extract injected. It was also affected by the training of the donor rats-longer training produced better transfer-and the interval between training and removal of the donor-rat brain; brain removal too soon after training apparently prevented the transfer material from fully developing...