The first experiment, even a series of experiments, was carried out by Soviet psychiatrists in the middle of the last century. The title and authors of this scientific monograph have already disappeared from my memory over the years, so I will retell the main points just from myself.
This study is about delegating different functions to the left and right hemispheres of the brain. And the curious thing starts right there - with the research methodology. For this is not some kind of software with fields of view from American and British psychologists. This is true hardcore.
The fact is that in the middle of the 20th century, the human rights situation around the world was, to put it mildly, so-so. GULAG, racial segregation, Hitler, after all. Well, if the person was a psychiatric patient, it was, in fact, a guinea pig. They received electric shocks, cut off pieces of their brains, and all this, with little or no control from civil society.
One of the methods of treatment was surgical intervention in the brain, with the aim of completely destroying the nerve connections between the left and right hemispheres. It seems that they treated seizures like that, and, it seems, it even turned out, not the point. The bottom line is that at the exit, a person turned out to have a brain in which the two hemispheres did not communicate at all with each other. He was simply cut through these connections with a scalpel during the operation. And then he lived with this for the rest of his life.
Such people, by the way, were quite normal and capable. It's just that they now had such an anatomical feature. And the ardent research mind of scientists decided to use this feature for scientific purposes.
Earlier, it was noticed that as a result of ECT (electroconvulsive therapy - when a person is shocked with a high-voltage current over the head), the patient's brain falls into a coma for an hour or two. And the scientists came up with this:
No sooner said than done. Patients who lacked communication between the cerebral hemispheres were alternately immersed in someone's left and right hemispheres. And taking advantage of the fact that these patients remained conscious, they conducted various tests with the nucleus that was currently functioning.
Tests were of various kinds (these guys, as you can see, had no problems with imagination at all) - for the recognition of visual images, various verbal tasks, and the like (there is really a whole monograph, if someone is really interested - write, strain, I'll try to find it, or if someone remembers offhand - write the name of the work).
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The main experimental finding (or confirmation) was, of course, the specialization of the hemispheres. In short:
- When a person's left hemisphere was turned off, he experienced serious difficulties in recognizing speech and the printed word, with communication in general.
- When a person's right hemisphere was turned off, but the left one worked, such a person not only returned the ability to communicate, but also became immoderately chatty. And at the same time, his speech lost its emotional color, and it seemed that the person was completely not involved in the communication process. Moreover, such a person had big problems with making a decision. Any solution.
It is about decision-making that will be discussed in the next experiment conducted by Western experts today.
The second experiment was carried out without tin and hardcore, on quite modern equipment. Even the electrodes were not implanted into the brain - they cost the remote stimulation of the parts of the brain responsible for making decisions and choosing.
In other words:
- Show a person, for example, two photographs,
- They offer to choose one of them,
- And at this time, with the help of an electromagnetic effect on his brain, they dictate this choice to him, well, in fact, they control him like a puppet. I'm not talking about the TV now - they act bypassing the visual and auditory organs, right through the skull.
And here's what is most remarkable about this experiment (in my opinion):
Do you understand?
That is, the "weak-willed" left hemisphere each time told some very convincing fairy tale about the motives of the "silent" right hemisphere, regarding this or that choice made by a person.
Sapienti sat. Roman D.