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...interventions fail, brutal Darwinian realism may have to replace cushy Marxian idealism in the fight for normal human relations. A pod-head’s brain can only handle so much stimulation before it becomes fried and requires a long-term break. Until this happens, numbers will dwindle as pod-heads cannot use their sense of hearing to warn against the unexpected car or bus. They’d better watch out when crossing Mass...
...researchers have not yet studied the brain activity of black subjects viewing white faces...
...study included 13 white subjects between the ages of 18 and 30 who were shown pictures of the faces of black people while their brain activity was being monitored. The subjects were presented with these images for either 30 milliseconds—too short for the subjects to be aware of seeing an image—or 525 milliseconds, which is long enough to recognize faces...
While these images were viewed, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor brain activity. The researchers paid special attention to activation of the amygdala and the fusiform gyrus, the region of the brain known to be involved in processing human faces...
...white subjects, who were proven before the experiment to be consciously unprejudiced, experienced greater activation in these regions when shown black faces subliminally than white faces. In contrast, when the images were displayed for 525 milliseconds, the frontal cortex—the area of the brain that deals with inhibition and control—experienced greater activation and the amygdala experienced less activation than in the subliminal condition...