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Andreas Killen (The City College of New York)
Conférences 2024
Jeudi 25 avril | 18h | salle Unithèque 4.215
“The Prisoner’s Cinema”: performing brain science in the 1950s
Andreas Killen (City College of New York)
In the 1950s scientists and clinicians investigated a form of hallucination known as “the prisoner’s cinema.” In doing so they drew on a wide range of novel techniques whose appearance at this time contributed to making the brain a newly explorable organ. This paper examines the role of psychologist Donald Hebb – leading architect of the cognitive revolution that contributed to the emergence of today’s “cerebral subject” – in the study of this syndrome, and relates it, on the one hand, to his effort to forge links between psychology and neurophysiology, and on the other to his brainwashing experiments – specifically, his research on sensory deprivation and the effects of exposure to propaganda. In both contexts, the study of hallucination carried important implications for Hebb’s answer to the problem of doubt about knowledge of the external world.
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