Sex/Violent Images Foil Perception of Sublim Msgs

[proldic]

kicked this back up from this discussion<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm10.showMessage?topicID=529.topic">p216.ezboard.com/frigorou...=529.topic</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <br>As w/ alot of Pravda's science reporting, I have to ask is this for real? anybody know anything about these studies? <br><br>Sexual/Violent Imagery Foils Perception of Subliminal Msgs <br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>From Pravda.ru 2005-08-23 <br><br>Science and Culture<br><br>Porno can make you go blind<br><br>...It's been confirmed by the new study published in the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review by US psychologists. The research discovered that people (both male and female) when shown erotic or gory images could not process what they were seeing immediately afterwards. <br><br>This is due to the brain producing what is termed emotion-induced blindness. This would therefore back up the claim that a driver did not see the pedestrian if they had just seen an emotionally traumatic image immediately prior to the accident, or a motorists could be affected by the use of sexually explicit billboards. <br><br>Researchers at the University in Nashville and Yale University in Connecticut showed hundreds of images to volunteers. <br><br>Most of them were "neutral" pictures but a few depicted scenes of violence or sexually provocative scenes were also included, the researchers found that people failed to detect visual images that appeared one-fifth of a second after emotional images, whereas they can detect those images with little problem after neutral images. <br><br>They also found that some people were more prone to this disability...<br><br>newsfromrussia.com/scienc...61592.html<br> <p></p><i></i>

[proldic]

" Researchers at the University in Nashville and Yale University in Connecticut showed hundreds of images to volunteers." <br> <p></p><i></i>

[Dreams End]

I live in Nashville. I wonder what University they are talking about. It's not identified. I'd suspect Vanderbilt but it just says "the University." <p></p><i></i>

[hanshan]

<br><br>am not familiar w/ the studies in question<br>but have some familiarity w/ the field.<br><br>I.e.,<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> no joke</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>concepts are sound<br><br>when have some time will scout up some<br>corroborating data.<br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[proldic]

then we really ought to begin looking into Culianu, and by extension, the works of Bruno more.<br><br>Anyone with any better info on this? <p></p><i></i>

[ZeroHaven]

the observation is real, even if the scientific analysis is somewhat pointless. all this study proves is you don't remember a split second after you've been startled.<br><br>when you're surprised, your brain is busy trying to make sense of it.. so attention is taken away from sensory input for a short moment. this is hardly a new observation, but if you need scientists to point out the obvious...<br><br>"Did you say something? I was distracted"<br>think of all the times you've had to poke somebody because they were in "deep thought" and didn't realize you were talking to them. when your brain is busy, it doesn't bother processing sensory input until it becomes important. <br><br>this short term 'blindness' will affect some people more than others because they're either less surprised, or they process the surprising information faster. <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a239/ZeroHaven/tinhat.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></p><i></i>