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Department of Psychiatry 6 '6-37 amFii y 21, APPLICATION FOR GRANT TO STUDY THE EFFECTS UPON HUMAN BEHAVIOR OP THIS REPETITION OF VERBAL SIGNALS / 1, General Purposes Wo are requesting a grant to support studies upon the effects upon human behavior of the repetition Of verbal signals. Our present interest is directed towards both {a) the production of changes in behavior, > and (b) changes in physiological function, the major emphasis to be upon _ the latter because of the greater ease of measurement. 7 . Background The effects upon human behavior of the re of verbal signals have been under study at the^ since June 195 A,. The early investigations Were based upon the pEservation that repeated playback of particularly significant statements made by the patient during psychotherapy elicited a number of phenomena: (a) Increased productivity by the patient of material of dynamic significance. (b) The material was related to the statement repeated (or driven). (c) Increased Identification of significant components in the repeated material. (d) This increased identification, or recognition, of significant components was particularly marked in the patient. It was also evoked in the therapist.