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Science 19 April 1963:
Vol. 140. no. 3564, pp. 306 - 308
DOI: 10.1126/science.140.3564.306
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Prolonged Immobilization of the Body: Changes in Performance and in the Electroencephalogram

John P. Zubek 1 and L. Wilgosh 1

1 Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Subjects who were immobilized for a week but otherwise were exposed to a normal and varied sensory environment showed intellectual and perceptual deficits similar in many respects to those occurring after prolonged visual and auditory deprivation. A significant change in the electroencephalogram was also observed.


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