CONTROL OF CHOICE BY APPLICATION OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC-FIELD EQUIVALENTS OF SPOKEN WORDS - MEDIATION BY EMOTIONAL MEANING RATHER THAN LINGUISTIC DIMENSIONS

Electromagnetic equivalents (about 1 microT) of the acoustic signature of spoken words were applied across the temporoparietal lobes by an a rray of external solenoids. Participants were asked to select the targ et word within a group of words. The experimental group of 7 chose the target word or words that shared its emotional dimensions (activation , evaluation) more frequently than did the reference group of 6 who re ceived no electromagnetic equivalents. Implications for the neu recogn itive detection of the emotional (connotative) components of word stim uli when transformed to electromagnetic equivalents rather than direct images or ''word sounds'' are discussed.