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Wednesday 9 November 2005

Now don't say I didn't warn you but............

According to this article at the New Scientist site looking at mucky pictures can make you go blind!

bluefluff said...: For 1/5 of a second? I think that's probably a price worth paying ;-)
Just don't take them in the car with you!; Wednesday, November 09, 2005 3:20:00 am
kat said...: The idea that people keep these images in their heads and do not concentrate on what immediately follows is just another statement of the bleeding obvious. It is something I think we all knew all along.Oh course things like this are distracting.; Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:55:00 am
kat said...: If images didn't grab people's attention, advertisers wouldn't bother putting them on billboards.; Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:46:00 am
Nogbad said...: Kat - get down off that fence and say what you mean! :-); Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:15:00 pm
kat said...: And the researchers say some personality types appear to be affected more than others by the phenomenon, known as “emotion-induced blindness”.

D'yer think they mean 'lust'.

I've tried sitting on fences but unfortunately I'm not very well balanced. :-); Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:36:00 am
Nogbad said...: Well that's you and me both Kat :-); Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:44:00 am
Anonymous said...: Me & my mate at UCL knew about that yonks ago, but we called it 'Fanny blindness'. Guess we should have published in Science rather than Razzle, but more scientists read the later.; Thursday, November 10, 2005 9:30:00 am

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