In the NYU study in Nature, Schiller et al used wrist electrodes and a computer screen with colored squares. Is that how Coherence Therapy is done?
No, yet it is the same process, carried out using different methods in different contexts, as suitable for the subject and the type of implicit memory. Such differences in concrete technique are seen in comparing different neuroscience studies as well as in comparing neuroscience studies to psychotherapy sessions. For example, neuroscientist Lissa Gallucio at Rutgers University used a technique with infants that was physically quite different from the technique used by NYU neuroscientists Schiller et al with adults, yet the same process was followed: reactivation of the target implicit memory followed by an experience that contradicts what the memory expects, while the memory is reactivated. For carrying out that same process in Coherence Therapy, we use techniques suitable to the more complex and emotionally vulnerable implicit memory material involved, as compared with the simple implicit memories that neuroscientists create for their studies. Description of how the process takes pla
