" Toward 1936, surgeons at the Montreal (Canada) Neurological Institute of McGill University began inserting tiny needle electrodes in different parts of exposed brains, particularly in the cerebral cortex. this line of study permitted even more accurate mapping of the inside of the brain. For when the surgeons touched certain parts of the exposed brain with the electric needle, the semiconscious patient would remember and speak about long-forgotten incidents of his earlier years. in other words, the stream of consciousness could be electrically reactivated. "
- Justus Schifferes, Probing the depths of human Personality, The Book of popular Science, volume 9, page 104. Grolier International, Inc. USA. copyright 1976
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