William Grey Walter, 'Traps, Tricks and Triumphs in EEG, 1936-66' (1966)
- PART OF:
- Papers held by Dr Ray Cooper
- Made:
- 1966-01-01-1966-12-31
- part of archive:
- Papers relating to the clinical and experimental neuroscientific work carried out at the Burden Neurological Institute
- maker:
- Walter, William Grey
Walter's talk for the Second Geoffrey Parr Memorial Lecture, 8 October 1966. Here, Walter describes his early collaboration with Parr at the Maida Vale Hospital; the Lewes Gaol Case in 1938; his experiences in the Second World War; the discovery of delta waves; the use of stroboscopes in epilepsy research; the role of amateurs in scientific research; the physiological effects of the experimenter/subject relationship; the discovery of contingent negative variation (CNV) and its possible applications; and problems with a statistical approach.
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330
- Identifier:
- BURD/A/06/031
- Access:
- Open Access
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