Nitrous Oxide and Cognitive Set: Implications of an Altered State of Consciousness for Creative Problem Solving
September 1, 1984 K. Gene Hansen, T. Malloy, O. Gordon et al.
To assess the effects of nitrous oxide on mechanized cognitive sets, sixty-four dental patients were randomly divided into four groups. Two control groups verified the procedure's ability to establish and demonstrate a mechanized cognitive set. The other two groups, the Oxygen Group and the Nitrous Oxide Group, demonstrated that nitrous oxide led to an increased probability of breaking...