From lmacdonald@mit.edu Mon Feb 19 18:02:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mit!lmacdonald From: lmacdonald@mit.edu (Lucia MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1996Feb19.180231.4634@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 18:02:31 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Let's look at the biophysics of 14.2 Hz from a medical and psychoacoustic perspective. 14.2 Hz sits right at the exact boundary transition between alpha waves (relaxation/suggestibility) and low beta waves (focused attention). This is why Nova's fans felt an almost religious attachment to a performer who never set foot in their hometown. Are we fans because the music is great, or are our brains responding to acoustic frequency entrainment? -- Lucia MacDonald | lmacdonald@mit.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 4121 D91C 8927 7AED "Keep the channels open." From vnakamura@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Feb 21 06:36:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!u-tokyo!vnakamura From: vnakamura@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Valeria Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1996Feb21.063631.6015@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 06:36:31 GMT References: <1996Feb19.180231.4634@mit.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Feb19.180231.4634@mit.edu>, lmacdonald@mit.edu (Lucia MacDonald) writes: > Let's look at the biophysics of 14.2 Hz from a medical and psychoacoustic perspective. > 14.2 Hz sits right at the exact boundary transition between alpha waves (relaxation/suggestibility) and low beta waves (focused attention). I remember crying during her broadcasts for no apparent reason as a 16-year-old. It felt like my chest was vibrating. -- Valeria Nakamura Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."