Reading and Calculating With Your Unconscious

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 18, 2012 @06:22AM from the coca-cola-available-in-the-lobby dept.

lee1 writes "Using special techniques that present information to one eye while hiding the information from the conscious mind (by masking it with more distracting imagery presented to the other eye), researchers have shown two new and very unexpected things: we can read and understand short sentences, and we can perform multi-step arithmetic problems, entirely unconsciously. The results of the reading and calculating are available to and influence the conscious mind, but we remain unaware of their existence. While we have known for some time that a great deal of sensory processing occurs below the surface and affects our deliberative behavior, it was widely believed until now that the subconscious was not able to actually do arithmetic or parse sentences."

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Come on... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-18 06:36 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Dupe
Christ on a crutch, this was posted 5 days ago!
Re:I knew that by Dupple · 2012-11-18 07:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This is a dupe
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/11/13/0330209/evidence-for-unconscious-math-language-processing-abilities

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Re:I knew that by Time_Ngler · 2012-11-18 07:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Replying to first post with an unrelated reply is obvious Karma whoring