title: Geophysical variables and behavior: XXXIX. Alterations in imaginings and suggestibility during brief magnetic field exposures.
abstract: 12 male and 12 female volunteers were evaluated for their suggestibility before and after an approximately 15-min. exposure to either sham, 1-Hz or 4-Hz magnetic fields that were applied across their mid-superior temporal lobes. During the field-application subjects were instructed to view a green light that was pulsating at the same frequency as the field and to imagine encountering an alien situation. Results were commensurate with the hypothesis that weak brain-frequency fields may influence certain aspects of imaginings and alter suggestibility.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D055590:Electromagnetic Phenomena; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D013404:Suggestion