<![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> Hrmm... i think it's really hard to separate movie differences from greater cultural differences. The way social situations are processed in China is different from Boston to China to Spain to Alaska. It's compounded by language, which shows some other cultural preferences. Movies may be a big indicator of what some of those differences are, and a person with a well rounded range of exposure might be better prepared for the world on some level? Personally I have to rack up the efforts of Creature Double Feature, Lovebug, Christine, and Carpenter's The Thing to figure out where I'm coming from.

eveninghawk

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> @annalee: Annalee are you hiring? My CV will leave you breathless ;)

EncephelanetRepairHelperGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> @Annalee: I don't care if Destroyah is the coolest monster in the world ... they shouldn't have killed Godzilla ever... As for Biollante, I thought that was cheating alot like the Clover Monster was cheating since Biollante just looked like a giant alligator, HOWEVER, at least it was transparent, whereas the Cloverfield Monster IS just a Beleen Whale planted onto a spider's body.

Eac_o_System

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> @Eac_O_System: Hey Godzilla vs. Destroyah had all the cool mini-destroyas in it that looked like the alien! Oh wait no that wasn't very cool. Would you have preferred . . . Biollante??!

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> This is your brain on Godzilla. Any questions?

Bellatrixie

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> i don't care what anyone else thinks...
but Godzilla IS good for your brain.... lol

dOk

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> @moff: ...the Easterners were better at seeing simultaneous configuration, which is essential for Einsteinian physics

I grew up on the east side of Cleveland which can be found if you draw a horizontal line about 500 miles directly west fro New York, and I was born in South Euclid. What am I?

Plumficient!

EncephelanetRepairHelperGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> I read the article that this piece links to. It says ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about any kind of link between movies and these results. THAT is just a bit of snarkiness on the part of the poster.

spudzill

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> Well, I'm betting growing up on a steady diet of anime, Japanese shaming-gameshows, Godzilla movies & Inframan tv series probably isn't much better for the brain than Mickey Mouse, American Idol, rap music & reality shows.

Cacafuego

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> @garro: It's been suggested that the way culture shapes the mind is why Eastern Europe and Russia became such a hotbed of physicists in the 20th century: The average Western brain was conditioned to see things linearly and in terms of efficient cause (that's perhaps not as true as it used to be), which drives Newtonian physics; the Easterners were better at seeing simultaneous configuration, which is essential for Einsteinian physics.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> I heard about this in a psychology class. Well, something close to it, I think. There was a picture that didn't 'make sense', like a simple optical illusion. We were asked to draw the picture from memory and no one could do it, but apparently people from some other country could.

Garro

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> @annalee:

DOH! Between LAS and all the UV radiation I got as a kid, I'm suprised I haven't simply disintegrated.

FrankenPC

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> No word on how growing up absorbing all those fights between Ghidorah and Godzilla affected my judgment.

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Three brainstems, of course.

Eac_o_System

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> Io9 isn't winning me over showing me something from Godzilla vs. Destroyah.

Eac_o_System

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> @Cacafuego: hahahaha

manguero

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> So, Professor Forrester & TV's Frank finally published their findings, eh?

Cacafuego

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> @braak: I think you are safe, but I bet your kids are screwed.

Gann

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> @FrankenPC: Basically, you are doomed.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> I disagree to the efficacy of anime vis a vis enlightenment. My experience of Anime is that it is either culturally impenetrable or simply vapid. Which, after living in Japan is my assessment of Japan in general. However, they are ususally harmless, unlike my fellow Americans who are mildly psychotic. So it's a trade-off.

spudzill

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> @hn333: Your brain is guaranteed to be enlightned, then. Well done!

WickedGlee

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> When is someone going to invent the "Mr. MRI". I want to study my brain at home.

FrankenPC

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> Have they done studies on the effects of Madonna and American Idol?

the memorexe

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> @annalee: Of course, he would probably say our need to see the MRI results before giving an idea like this any credence is a result of our visually biased Western culture. ;-)

And is the MRI machine actually cool, or hot? (Bada-bum!)

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> This is why I watch Anime.

hn333

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> Soooo....What are the implications if I grew up watching Love American Style?

FrankenPC

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> @moff: Yeah but he didn't have a cool MRI machine so it must not have been true.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> OK. It appears that,according to the snippet of the study, that americans are more comfortable making judgements of objects and east asians were better at judging relationships? Is that what it says? I don't see anywhere where it says Bad Cinema is the culprit.

spudzill

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> Now I'm glad I watched Fantasia and 2001: A Space Odyssey so many times when I was a kid.

Tardigrade

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> Cool, but Marshall McLuhan could've told us this 40 years ago. And kind of did.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> I think it also might have something to do with how different their language is.

WickedGlee

]]> <![CDATA[Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain -- Literally]]> I am not sure what the ramifications of this are. But, I suspect it's too late for me to do anything about it now. Fingers crossed that American culture hasn't made me a moron.

braak

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