Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-11-27 | Page 1 | Pup Poisoned with Curare Acquires Two Egos, Puzzles Professor with Pedal Peculiarities`

Pup Poisoned With Curare Acouires Two Egos, Puzzles Professor With Pedal Peculiarities PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 17 JP A dog that got a dual personality by taking just a little curare, the poison used by South Americsn arrowmen,' was described to the American Philosophical - aasocis-tion aasocis-tion here today. "Rover did one of the strangest strang-est stunts ever found by science. He acquired two egos, distinctively traceable to different pans af his brain. Ths ego could da tricks, but not the same ones, and Rover couldn't get either of bis personalities person-alities to learn what the other knew., ' The experiment appeared to show there msy be a physical 'mechanism at work in dual personality per-sonality makeups. Ths dog wss taught by E. A. Culler, professor of psychology at the University of Illinois, to raise his bind right paw at ths sound of a bell. This was done by "conditioning." "con-ditioning." with the aid of a slight electric shock and other, conditions to make sure that the paw lifting Became the sort of fixed hsbit which scientists call a "conditioned reflex." Then be was given curare. Un-I Un-I der its influence, hewaj barely able to move. In this condition his other hind paw, the left was "conditioned" to lift at ths sound of a bell.' Thereafter, when "Rover" had ho curare, he would lift his right leg at the sound of a belL Under curare he would lift bis other leg. But he never switched, never 'I raised the right under curare, nor I ths left without it ,