Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:24:55 -0000
 > From: "Andy C"
 > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6427951.stm

  What the BBC piece omitted - but was included at Science Daily
  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070308121938.htm is more interesting
  and should be worrying for some -

  "Using fMRI, the study looked at whether an image you aren't aware of -- but one
  that reaches the retina  --  has an impact on brain activity in the primary visual
  cortex, part of the occipital lobe.  Subjects' brains did respond to the object even 
  when they were not conscious of having seen it."

  Worrying because the primary visual cortex takes decisions about perceptions,
  emotional reactions like fear or love or hate, without bothering to tell the
  `conscious brain'.  And the primary cortex has the veto: censorship.

  And subliminal advertising - or propaganda - is legal in the USA.

  cheers
  Ray D

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