Evening Star Newspaper, April 25, 1930, Page 10

IMAGES OF MEMORY HELD ELECTRICAL Cleveland Scientist Tells of Seeing Deposits Being Made in Brain. BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, Associated Press Sclence Editor. PHILADELPHIA, April 25.—Discov- eries that the images of memory prob- ably are electrical deposits in the brain ‘were reported to the American Philo- sophical Soclety today. They were described by Dr. G. W | Crile of Cleveland, who told of actually seeing the deposits being made. They are produced by the tiniest of electrical currents passing along the nerves and e ving in the brain per- manent patterns—memorles—which are never lost. The connections may be- come obstructed and ability of recall impaired. He cited experiments showing that nerves carry electrochemical impulses as ‘wires conduct electricity. He pictured the nervous system with an infinite number of “receptors,” receiving sta- tions, transforming sense impressions into electrical impylses and sending them into the “innumerable microscop- ically visible fibers of white matter” of the brain. Light Causes Energy to Travel Many observers, he said, have found that light falling upon the eye causes electric energy to travel over the optic nerve. This he compared to the new “electric eye,” the photoelectric cell, in which potassium may be used to obtain the photoelectric effect. This same po- tassium is abundant, he said, in certain of the eye nerves, and could operate somewhat the same. “We know what material the mechan- ism that holds the memory image must b:." h&went on, “for the bn!n'enmms of water, various compounds of potas- sium, sodium, phommo\u, calcium, magnesium and a group of highly spe- clalized fats. In other words, the brain consists of conductors and insulators. PLAY REWRITTEN | FOR SOUND FLM Pirandello, Italian Author, Goes to Berlin to Market “Six Characters.” By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 256.—Luigi Pirandello, Italian playwright and poet, desires to be handed down to posterity, not only through his literary works, but also through the motion picture or the sound film. ‘The man who wrote “Six Characters | in Search of an Author” has arrived | in Berlin in search of a movie or talkie producer with imagination enough to grasp the significance of Pirandello’s first subjectivist scenario. “I have just rewritten my ‘Six Char- acters’ as a movie scenario,” said Pirandello, who is spending some weeks in Germany, superintending the pro- duction of several of his plays. “The theater director of my stage play is changed into the author in my movie scenario. In other words, I desire my- self to play the role of what, in the stage play, is the theater director. “The musical composer of today transmits his composition to posterity not only through the printed page. He invokes the aid of the phonograph to leave to the world an exact version of his self-interpretation. “Then, why should the modern play- wright not make use of the movie and talkie to reveal himself? In playing the role of the author in ‘Six Char- acters’ I shall be playing myself. shall reveal myself as I really am in the film drama.” ‘Though modestly disclaiming that his proposal of acting in a subjectivis- tic way film may blaze a new trail, Pirandello admitted that other char- acters of our time might want to follow in his footsteps and reveal the movie THE -EVENING . STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. FRIDAY, APRIL. 25 1930. Open Account ur Sheldon T F Street at Seventh 75¢, *1 and *1:2 g =~ TaE HecHT Co. 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When another like impact upon the same sense organ occurs the same fibers (neuro- fibrillae) would be stimulated and the pathway intensified thus recreating the 1 image—creating raemory. “These infinite pathways thus cre- ated intercommunicate, allowing in- finite numbers of associations, thus ‘making possible the processes of thought and reasoning.” Amplifying Nerve Impulses. A method of picking up the electrical impulses of a nerve and amplifying them so that they are audible in a loud speaker was described by Dr. Detlev W. memories of your Bronk of the University of Pennsylvania. dinner this week on ‘These impulses, called *‘change elec- any Norfolk & Wash- tric potential” occur at rates varying ington Boat if you from 5 to 150 a second. A strong im- order fresh Potomac “pulse causes a muscle to contract, but a Sh ad with Duchess one results only in muscular Pots them. Smartly draping raglan models . . . or body-tracing box- coat models. Shown in good- looking tan and grey shades. 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