Blinding images

uh-oh, I better un-bookmark Flickrlicio.us

Link: seattlepi.com Buzzworthy: Blinding images.

Researchers have finally found evidence for what good Catholic boys have known all along – erotic images make you go blind.

Comments

[Bryan William Jones]

I'll say what I said on Slashdot:

"Blindness is a poor and imprecise term for this finding and these findings are simply an extension of work performed in situational awareness. As one who's research deals with the neuroscience of vision and blindness, I have to say that "attention" or even "situational awareness: would be a better word/term, rather than "blindness". No offense to the authors of this study, but that sort of terminology might be expected of psychologists. :-) Seriously though, blindness implies a fundamental defect in the visual processing pathways as opposed to a failure to bring attention to a change in presentation due to conflicts of attention in higher or associative cortical processing. Now, if they demonstrated a lack of visual evoked potential in cortex, that might be something.

The failure to attend to or notice changes in your environment due to more traffic in cortical associative areas is not surprising really, and has long been known by cognitive scientists working with Air Force pilots. The more tasks required or stress induced upon a situation will degrade attentive performance and result in missing changes introduced into the environment."

[jeff]

does that mean I can look at Flickrlicio.us again?

[Bryan William Jones]

Absolutely.