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...that a "black tie" was the only suitable way to celebrate the freeing of Paris, the ice broke. Last week, after three winters of wartime underdressing, U.S. partygoers were back in evening clothes. In Manhattan, Broadway first-nighters showed up in dinner jackets and long dresses. Fifth Avenue seethed: Adrian's plaid taffeta with a bustle back was the sensation of Bonwit Teller's fashion show titled "I'm Dressing for my Darling"; Saks offered a beaded wool evening cloak ($139); the Tailored Woman recommended a shower of ostrich plumes on violet crepe. Lord & Taylor bought full...
Nerve cells, Dr. Adrian found, give off electrical waves (resulting from changes in potential) when they are stimulated. The nerve impulses that set off these brain waves all seem to be of the same kind, regardless of where the stimulation comes from. What distinguishes the sense signals from one another is the place in the brain where they are received: a visual image, for example, is recorded in one area of the brain, a hearing image in another...
...moving his electrodes on a subject's head, Dr. Adrian located these areas definitely, and also located the image. Thus, when a subject looked at a cross of light, electrical impulses defined a cross-shaped area at the back of the occipital lobe of the brain. A sound heard by the subject likewise made a brain image of a characteristic shape. Dr. Adrian observed that he had not yet discovered the shape of a violet's smell but he is confident that eventually he will...
...flickering light, his brain-broadcasting instrument recorded flickering electrical impulses of the same frequency. This experiment revealed "an interesting borderland" between the visual area and the rest of the brain - the image spread out over a wider area, into parts of the brain not primarily concerned with sight. Dr. Adrian suggests that this spreading activity in the brain represents the reaction of the brain cells to the image, i.e., an approach to thinking. But his recordings of this complex process are so confusing and difficult to interpret that "the present technique of recording brain events, by oscillographs connected with electrodes...
Then, says Dr. Adrian, "an electrical survey could scarcely avoid giving some entirely novel information about what is happening in the brain when we think or solve problems or decide what...