From stroboscope to dream machine: a history of flicker-induced hallucinations.
European neurology 2009 B C Ter Meulen, D Tavy, B C Jacobs
When early neurophysiologists, like William Grey Walter (1910-1977), started using intermittent photic driving in electroencephalography, they were struck by a wide range of visual hallucinations that were reported. In current neuroscience, the phenomenon is used mainly to model hallucinations that are related to altered neuronal activity between the thalamus and the visual cortex, such as the...