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You're talking content. I'm talking neurobiology.
by lj3 9y ago
You're talking content. I'm talking neurobiology.
- everyone 9y agoCan you elaborate? post some links or references? Sounds interesting.
- lj3 9y agoHere's a decent article to start with: https://journal.thriveglobal.com/how-books-and-television-affect-your-brain-differently-according-to-science-82c3b14f789b https://journal.thriveglobal.com/how-books-and-television-af... If you do some searching, you'll find lots of ink spilled on the subject of "does TV rot your brain" and the cognitive benefits of reading.
- Mediterraneo10 9y agoThe article you link to speaks about television, not cinema. Furthermore, its claim that the visual medium encourages passivity: "you can just sit back and watch everything unfold without effort on your part. You’re less likely to pause to reflect on what’s happening." does not apply to the considerable number of filmmakers (and occasional television content producers) who employ Brechtian alienation techniques.
- lj3 9y agoDon't be dense. That sentence is from the reporter trying to make a study easier to understand to the common folk. Actually read the study referenced. There are also other studies that compare content and find it doesn't make a difference on the impact of the brain.
- everyone 9y agoJust an idea,, Maybe all TV input looks the same to us, as regards its effect on the brain, but in reality its not.. Our tools for measuring anything to do with the brain/cognition are extremely crude currently. eg. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobel-prize-in-neuroscience-the-dead-salmon-study/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobe... To use computers as an analogy. If you were to examine it only physically, a hard drive filled with random garbage would look the same as one filled with our greatest works.
- lj3 9y agoWhat's your motivation behind this comment? Do you really want to live in a world where some of humanity's greatest achievements are seen the same as random garbage? In any case, current brain scans are crude, but they measure function, not data. It's like putting an ammeter over an ethernet cable. You're not going to be able to see the data flowing over the wire, but you'll definitely be able to tell that data isn't flowing when it should be. You can also physically inspect a computer and see when a capacitor has blown.
- jacobolus 9y ago“rot your brain”? Like.... little worms will be transmitted directly through the screen, and a bad smell will start pouring out your ears? Give us a break. Visual storytelling is fundamentally different from pure linguistic storytelling. It has much higher bandwidth, so it provides a richer set of simultaneous messages (in some ways similar to an opera or stage play or puppet show, but with even more flexibility over the visual content), but also causes a forced progression through time that makes it not as easily amenable to skimming, reading out of order, re-reading, cross-referencing, or pausing to write direct responses to the text. But there’s a huge amount to learn and appreciate in visual stories. The best visual stories are incomparably better than the worst written schlock, and vice versa.