14 gen 1954 anni - Newspapers printed about Hebb's Sensory Deprivation Study

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The work on sensory deprivation (Bexton et al. 1954) was reported in the Montreal
Gazette of 14 January 1954 under the headline “See, hear, feel nothing research shows bored brain acts queerly: Isolation tests at McGill pay human guinea pigs $20 a day — but few can take it”. The same research was treated more harshly in the New York Times of 15 April 1956, which linked Hebb’s sensory deprivation experiments at McGill to brainwashing.
^ https://ojs.library.dal.ca/nsis/article/viewFile/nsis44-1brown/3549

“They were given food by human beings, and also when they needed to use the washrooms and things they would be escorted there by other human beings. So they weren’t completely alone,” Milner says. He recalls watching as the subjects were led down the hall to the bathroom clad in frosted-over goggles. “They wore goggles and earphones and [there was] some sort of noise, just white noise, from a loudspeaker,” he says.

Prone in their isolation rooms, the volunteers also wore gloves and cardboard tubes over their arms to limit their sense of touch. A U-shaped pillow covered their ears and the hum of an air conditioner further obscured outside noise. “According to his theory, the brain would deteriorate if it didn’t have a continuous stream of sensory input,” Milner told me. “It was really just a test of this theory, which in any case didn’t really hold together much, although these sensory deprivation experiments tended to support it.”


Hebb had reportedly hoped to observe his subjects for six weeks. As it turned out, the majority lasted no more than a few days in isolation—and none more than a week.
^ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/donald-o-hebb-effects-extreme-isolation/

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