by Alex Boese
REFERENCES
References are listed according to the sections in which they appear in the book. Those already footnoted in the text are not repeated here. For some sections there are no additional references beyond the one in the text.
One: Frankenstein’s Lab
THE BODY ELECTRIC
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London Times (January 22, 1803), page 3, column D.
London Times (February 15, 1803), page 3, column C.
Morus, I. R. (1998). Frankenstein’s Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London. New Haven, CT: Princeton University Press. 125–52.
Pera, M. (1992). The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity. Translated by Jonathan Mandelbaum. New Haven, CT: Princeton University Press.
ZOMBIE KITTEN
Finger, S., & M. B. Law (1998). “Karl August Weinhold and his ‘Science’ in the era of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Experiments on Electricity and the Restoration of Life.” Journal of the History of Medicine 53: 161–80.
THE ELECTRICAL ACARI
Crosse, C. (1857). Memorials, scientific and literary of Andrew Crosse, electrician. Longman: 353–60.
Haining, P. (1979). The Man Who Was Frankenstein. London: Frederick Muller.
Miller, S. L. (1953). “A Production of Amino Acids under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions.” Science 117 (3046): 528–29.
Secord, J. A. (1988). “Extraordinary Experiment: Electricity and the Creation of Life in Victorian England.” In The Uses of Experiment, Gooding, D., T. Pinch, & S. Schaffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 337–83.
SEVERED HEADS – AN ABBREVIATED HISTORY
Brown-Séquard, É. (1858). L’encephale, après avoir completement perdu ses fonctions et ses propriétes vitales peut les recouvrer sous l’influence de sang charge d’oxygene. Journal de la physiologie de l’homme et des animaux. Paris: Tome Premier. 117–22.
Brukhonenko, S. (1929). Expériences avec la tête isolée du chien II: Résultats des experiences. Journal de physiologie et de pathologie générale 27 (1): 65–79.
Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940). Soviet Film Agency. Viewable at: http://www.archive.org/details/Experime1940.
Hecht, J. M. (1997). French Scientific Materialism and the Liturgy of Death: The Invention of a Secular Version of Catholic Last Rites (1876–1914). French Historical Studies 20 (4): 703–35.
Loye, P. (1888). La mort par la décapitation. Bureaux du Progres medical. Paris.
“An Outrage Against Humanity” (January 5, 1885). Galveston Daily News: 3.
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HUMAN-APE HYBRID
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THE MAN WHO CHEATED DEATH
“Cornish Readies Life Machine” (May 15, 1947). Oakland Tribune: 16.
“Dr. Cornish, Chemist, Dies at 59” (March 6, 1963). Oakland Tribune: 1–2.
Ford, J. E. (February 1935). “Can Science Raise the Dead?” Popular Science Monthly 126 (2): 11–13, 108.
Life Returns (1935). Scienart Pictures. Available on DVD from Alpha Video: http://www.oldies.com.
Shuster, E. (March 16, 1934). “Life-Giving Fluid Is Injected into Dead Dog’s Veins and Breath Breathed into Lungs to Restore Life to Him.” The Burlington (N.C.) Daily Times-News: 8.
THE TWO-HEADED DOGS OF DR DEMIKHOV
Mosby, A. (April 26, 1959). “Two-Headed Russian Dog Displayed for Reporters.” Nevada State Journal: 8.
FRANKEN-MONKEY
Fallaci, O. (November 28, 1967). “The Dead Body & the Living Brain.” Look: 99–108.
White, R. J., et al. (1996). “The isolation and transplantation of the brain. An historical perspective emphasizing the surgical solutions to the design of these classical models.” Neurological Research 18 (3): 194–203.
Two: Sensorama
THE MOCK-TICKLE MACHINE
Harris, C. R. (1999). “The Mystery of Ticklish Laughter.” American Scientist 87 (4): 344–48.
TOUCHING STRANGERS
Hornik, J. (1992). “Tactile Stimulation and Consumer Response.” The Journal of Consumer Research 19 (3): 449–58.
Ovesen, L. (2004). “The Midas touch and other tipping stunts.” European Journal of Cancer Prevention 13: 465–66.
Silverthorne, C. (1972). “The Effects of Tactile Stimulation on Visual Experience.” Journal of Social Psychology 88: 153–54.
Stephen, R., & R. L. Zweigenhaft (1986). “The Effect of Tipping of a Waitress Touching Male and Female Customers.” Journal of Social Psychology 126: 141–42.
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
Sage, A. (January 14, 2002). “Cheeky little test exposes wine ‘experts’ as weak and flat.” Times (London).
Zwerdling, D. (August 2004). “Shattered Myths.” Gourmet: 72–74, 126.
COKE VS. PEPSI
Thompson, C. (October 26, 2003). “There’s a Sucker Born in Every Medial Prefrontal Cortex.” New York Times Magazine: 54–57.
SYCHRONOUS MENSTRUATION (THE SCENT OF A WOMAN)
Horn, M. (1999). Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age with Hillary’s Class, Wellesley ’69. New York: Times Books. 123–32.
Stern, K., & M. K. McClintock (1998). “Regulation of Ovulation by Human Pheromones.” Nature 392: 177–79.
Wright, K. (1994). “The Sniff of Legend; Human Pheromones? Chemical Sex Attractants? And a Sixth Sense Organ in the Nose? What Are We, Animals?” Discover 15 (4): 60–68.
THE SMELL OF MONEY
Kleinfield, N. R. (October 25, 1992). “The Smell of Money.” New York Times: VI, 8.
Trivedi, B. (2006). “The Hard Smell.” New Scientist 192 (2582): 36–39.
SMELL ILLUSIONS
De Araujo, I. E., E. T. Rolls, M. I. Velazco, C. Margot, & I. Cayeux (2005). “Cognitive Modulation of Olfactory Processing.” Neuron 46 (4): 671–79.
Slosson, E. E. (1899). “A Lecture Experiment in Hallucinations.” Psychological Review 6: 407–8.
THE INVISIBLE GORILLA
Simons, D. J., & D. T. Levin (1998). “Failure to Detect Changes to People During a Real-World Interaction.” Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 5 (4): 644–49.
THE MOZART EFFECT
Bangerter, A., & C. Heath (2004). “The Mozart Effect: Tracking the Evolution of a Scientific Legend.” British Journal of Social Psychology 43: 605–23.
Chabris, C. F. (1999). “Prelude or Requiem for the ‘Mozart Effect’?” Nature 400 (6747): 826–27.
Hetland, L. (2000). “Listening to Music Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning: Evidence for the ‘Mozart Effect.’ ” Journal of Aesthetic Education 34 (3/4): 105–48.
THE ACOUSTICS OF COCKTAIL PARTIES
Lebo, C. P., K. S. Oliphant, & J. Garrett (1967). “Acoustic Trauma from Rock-and-Roll Music.” California Medicine 107 (5): 378–80.
MacLean, W. R. (1959). “On the Acoustics of Cocktail Parties.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 31 (1): 79–80.
Three: Total Recall
ELECTRIC RECALL
Loftus, E. F., & G. R. Loftus (1980). “On the Permanence of Stored Information in the Human Brain.” American Psychologist 35 (5): 409–20.
Penfield, W. (1958). “Some Mechanisms of Consciousness Discovered during Electrical Stimulation of the Brain.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 44 (2): 51–66.
Valenstein, E. S. (1973). Brain Control: A Critical Examination of Brain Stimulation and Psychosurgery. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 108–14.
ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET
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Rensch, B. (1956). “Increase of Learning Capability with Increase of Brain-Size.” The American Naturalist 90 (851): 81–95.
THE MEMORY SKILLS OF COCKTAIL WAITRESSES
Ingram, J. (2000). The Barmaid’s Brain: And Other Strange Tales from Science. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company.
UNDERWATER MEMORY
Godden, D., & A. Baddeley (1980). “When Does Context Influence Recognition Memory?” British Journal of Psychology 71: 99–104.
Koens, F., O. T. J. T. Cate, & E. J. F. M. Custers (2003). “Context-Dependent Memory in a Meaningful Environment for Medical Education: In the Classroom and at the Bedside.” Advances in Health Sciences Education 8: 155–65.
EDIBLE MEMORY
Bird, J. (March 28, 1964). “The Worm Learns.” Saturday Evening Post: 66–67.
Gratzer, W. (2000). The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty. New York: Oxford University Press. 57–64.
Rilling, M. (1996). “The Mystery of the Vanished Citations: James McConnell’s Forgotten 1960s Quest for Planarian Learning, a Biochemical Engram, and Celebrity.” American Psychologist 51 (6): 589–98.
Travis, G. D. L. (1981). “Replicating Replication? Aspects of the Social Construction of Learning in Planarian Worms.” Social Studies of Science 11 (1): 11–32.
Ungar, G., L. Galvan, & G. Chapouthier (1972). “Evidence for Chemical Coding of Color Discrimination in Goldfish Brain.” Experientia 28 (9): 1026–27.
BENEFICIAL BRAINWASHING
Cameron, D. E. (1960). “Production of Differential Amnesia as a Factor in the Treatment of Schizophrenia.” Comprehensive Psychiatry 1: 26–34.
Collins, A. (1997). In the sleep room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada. Toronto: Key Porter Books.
Gillmor, D. (1987). I Swear by Apollo: Dr. Ewen Cameron and the CIA-Brainwashing Experiments. Montreal: Eden Press.
Marks, J. (1979). The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control. New York: Times Books. Chapter 8.
THE WHITE BEAR
Wegner, D. M. (1989). White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts: An Exploration of Suppression, Obsession, and the Psychology of Mental Control. New York: Viking.
Wegner, D. M., & D. J. Schneider (2003). “The White Bear Story.” Psychological Inquiry 14 (3&4): 326–29.
LOST IN THE MALL
Loftus, E. F., & K. Ketcham (1996). The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin.
Neimark, J. (1996). “The Diva of Disclosure.” Psychology Today 29 (1): 48–52, 78, 80.
Four: Bedtime Stories
Martin, P. (2004). Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
SLEEP LEARNING
“Deeper . . . Deeper . . . Dee . . .” (March 20, 1950). Time: 77.
Elliott, C. R. (1947). “An Experimental Study of the Retention of Auditory Material Presented During Sleep.” Unpublished master’s thesis, University of North Carolina.
Emmons, W. H., & C. W. Simon (1956). “The Non-recall of Material Presented during Sleep.” The American Journal of Psychology 69 (1): 76–81.
Fox, B. H., & J. S. Robbin (1952). “The Retention of Material Presented during Sleep.” Journal of Experimental Psychology 43: 75–79.
“He Teaches Frogs to Lose Hangups.” (December 17, 1972). The Daily Review (Hayward, Calif.): 14.
“Learning while you sleep method eases home work.” (September 6, 1955). Albuquerque Journal: 26.
ELEVEN DAYS AWAKE
De Manaceine, M. (1894). “Quelques observations expérimentales sur l’influence de l’insomnie absolue.” Archives Italiennes de biologie 21: 322–25.
Dement, W. C. (1974). Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.
Patrick, G. T. W., & J. A. Gilbert (1896). “On the Effects of Loss of Sleep.” The Psychological Review 3 (5): 469–83.
LET SLEEPING CATS HUNT
Brown, C. (February 2, 2003). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Deer.” New York Times Magazine: 34–41, 53, 72, 79, 82, 83.
Jouvet, M. (1967). “The States of Sleep.” Scientific American 216 (2): 62–72.
Hendricks, J. C., A. R. Morrison, & G. L. Mann (1982). “Different behaviors during paradoxical sleep without atonia depend on pontine lesion site.” Brain Research 239:81–105.
Henley, K., & A. R. Morrison (1974). “A re-evaluation of the effects of lesions of the pontine tegmentum and locus coeruleus on phenomena of paradoxical sleep in the cat.” Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis 34: 215–32.
WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
“Sweet Dreams Are Made of Cheese.” (September 25, 2005). British Cheese Board press release. Available online at: http://www.cheeseboard.co.uk/news.cfm?page_id=240.
Tauber, E. S., H. P. Roffwarg, & J. Herman (1968). “The effects of longstanding perceptual alterations on the hallucinatory content of dreams.” Psychophysiology 5: 219.
Five: Animal Tales
ELEPHANTS ON ACID
Conley, C. (August 4, 1962). “Shot of Drug Kills Tusko.” Daily Oklahoman: 1–2.
“Elephant Dies from New Drug” (August 5, 1962). Appleton Post-Crescent: A2.
“Fatal Research: Drug Kills Elephant Guinea Pig” (August 4, 1962). Long Beach Press-Telegram: B12.
Harwood, P. D. (1963). “Therapeutic Dosage in Small and Large Mammals.” Science 139 (3555): 684–85.
Koella, W. P., R. F. Beaulieu, & J. R. Bergen (1964). “Stereotyped behavior and cyclic changes in response produced by LSD.” International Journal of Neuropharmacology 3: 397–403.
Lemov, R. (2005). World as Laboratory: Mice, Mazes, and Men. New York: Hill and Wang. Chapter 10.
“LSD Related Death of an Elephant” (August 16, 2002). Erowid. Available online at: http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_history4.shtml.
“The Maestro of ‘Mind-Control’ Continues to Haunt America.” Freedom Magazine. Available online at: http://www.freedommag.org/english/la/issue02/page12.htm.
Siegel, R. K. (1984). “LSD-Induced Effects in Elephants: Comparisons with Musth Behavior.” Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 22 (1): 53–56.
Siegel, R. K., & M. E. Jarvik (1975). “Drug-Induced Hallucinations in Animals and Man.” In Siegel, R. K., & L. J. West, eds. Hallucinations. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 81–161.
Witt, P. N., C. F. Reed, & D. B. Peakall (1968). A Spider’s Web: Problems in Regulatory Biology. New York: Springer-Verlag.
RACING ROACHES
Rajecki, D. W., W. Ickes, C. Corcoran, & K. Lenerz (1977). “Social Facilitation of Human Performance: Mere Presence Effects.” Journal of Social Psychology 102: 297–310.
Worringham, C. J., & D. M. Messick (1983). “Social Facilitation of Running: An Unobtrusive Study.” Journal of Social Psychology 121: 23–29.
EYEING AN UNGULATE
Ellsworth, P. C., J. M. Carlsmith, & A. Henson (1972). “The Stare as a Stimulus to Flight in Human Subjects: A Series of Field Experiments.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 21 (3): 302–11.
HORNY TURKEYS AND HYPERSEXUAL CATS
Carbaugh, B. T., M. W. Schein, & E. B. Hale (1962). “Effects of Morphological Variations of Chicken Models on Sexual Responses of Cocks.” Animal Behaviour 10: 235–38.
Davis, K. (2001). More Than a Meal: The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual, and Reality. New York: Lantern Books.
Schreiner, L., & A. Kling (1953). “Behavioral Changes Following Rhinencephalic Injury in Cat.” Journal of Neurophysiology 16: 643–59.
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THE BRAIN SURGEON AND THE BULL
Horgan, J. (October 2005). “The Forgotten Era of Brain Chips.” Scientific American 293 (4): 66–73.
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Six: Mating Behavior
LOVE AT LAST CALL
Madey, S. F., M. Simo, D. Dillworth, D. Kemper, A. Toczynski, & A. Perelle (1996). “They Do Get More Attractive at Closing Time, but Only When You Are Not in a Relationship.” Basic and Applied Social Psychology 18 (4): 387–93.
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THE GAY DETECTOR
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HEART RATE DURING INTERCOURSE
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PUSHING THE PLEASURE BUTTON
Heath, R. G. (1972). “Pleasure and Brain Activity in Man.” The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 154 (1): 3–18.
Olds, J., & P. Milner (1954). “Positive Reinforcement Produced by Electrical Stimulation of Septal Area and Other Regions of Rat Brain.” Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 47: 419–27.
VOULEZ-VOUS COUCHEZ AVEC MOI (CE SOIR)?
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Clark, R. D., & E. Hatfield (2003). “Love in the Afternoon.” Psychological Inquiry 14 (3&4): 227–31.