Tonic immobility in the rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) induced by manipulation, immobilization, and experimental inversion of the visual field.

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A short review of the literature on tonic immobility (animal hypnosis) is given. One adult [female] rhesus was studied. Tonic immobility was obtained by stroking certain body areas, particularly the eyes and thorax; by placing the subject in an exptl. chair, in which gross body movements were restrained (the response to this form of stimulation persisted for many days and only gradually was it eliminated by training); and by exptl. inversion of the visual field. After some experimentation the immobile response was conditioned to the sight of the chair and to tactual stimulations of the chair when no restraint was imposed.

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