<![CDATA[Rewire the Neurons in Your Brain Just By Looking - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Rewire the Neurons in Your Brain Just By Looking - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Rewire the Neurons in Your Brain Just By Looking]]> @Kevin Kelly: Oh, man, you beat me to it. Just like snow crash. The think is, I think I like the idea so much that I believe it might be true.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Rewire the Neurons in Your Brain Just By Looking]]> Hello Annalee,

In response to your opening post regarding violence and brain rewiring, a study has actually confirmed this.

Repeated Exposure to Media Violence Is Associated with Diminished Response in an Inhibitory Frontolimbic Network
[www.plosone.org]

Basically what happens is that the mechanism that inhibits a violent reaction is impaired after watching violent images/movies or even violent video games. So one would be less likely to control one's self and more likely to snap at something that would otherwise be trivial.

Note that this is not the same process as desensitisation.


Beachcoma

]]> <![CDATA[Rewire the Neurons in Your Brain Just By Looking]]> So the next time I'm goatse'd I can sue for assault with intent to cause damage to my neurons?

Doug Nelson

]]> <![CDATA[Rewire the Neurons in Your Brain Just By Looking]]> If i remember correctly it made Alex react to Beethoven as well.

Bensnap

]]> <![CDATA[Rewire the Neurons in Your Brain Just By Looking]]> Sooooo, is this the process describing how I REMEMBER watching clockwork orange?

gizjonny

]]> <![CDATA[Rewire the Neurons in Your Brain Just By Looking]]> There was a documentary on this effect about 20 years ago. It was called "Videodrome".

QuasarErazar

]]> <![CDATA[Rewire the Neurons in Your Brain Just By Looking]]> Tennis anyone?

MaxTwice

]]> <![CDATA[Rewire the Neurons in Your Brain Just By Looking]]> @SeanOHara: Yes, but he was being programmed by the images as much as by the drug. He learned to hate experiencing violence in the real world via drug-induced aversion to violent images. After all, they programmed him with movies rather than violent action.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Rewire the Neurons in Your Brain Just By Looking]]> The headline is a little misleading because it makes it seem like another one of those "science conclusively demonstrates the staggeringly obvious" bits of research. Which I don't think it is.

Of course visual stimuli rewires the brain. When a person concentrates to memorize a visual scene for later recall, they are rewiring their brain in a subtle and perhaps global way. Every vivid visual memory you have is the result of this rewiring process.

What these scientists have actually done is learn something very new about how the brain rewires itself from visual stimulus--something unexpected and provocative.

corpore-metal

]]> <![CDATA[Rewire the Neurons in Your Brain Just By Looking]]> To be fair, A Clockwork Orange wasn't premised on images altering anyone's personality. It was a Pavlovian process where Alex was forced to watch violent movies while being given drugs that made him ill. After a while, his body started reacting badly to the site of the violence even without the drugs.

SeanOHara

]]> <![CDATA[Rewire the Neurons in Your Brain Just By Looking]]> Damnit, I was going to say that!

Rybanis

]]> <![CDATA[Rewire the Neurons in Your Brain Just By Looking]]> Just like Snow Crash!

Kevin Kelly

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