next they'll be telling me that masturbation causes blindness too

"If your partner seems to be ignoring you after a flash of nudity on the television screen, it might not be his or her fault. New research indicates that people shown erotic or gory images frequently fail to process what they see immediately afterwards."

"We observed that people fail to detect visual images that appeared one-fifth of a second after emotional images, whereas they can detect those images with little problem after neutral images," Zald, assistant professor of psychology and member of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, said.

Read the article Erotic images, gore cause temporary 'Blindness' by Melanie Moran here at Eureka Alert Public News List

A multimedia version of this story is available at http://www.exploration.vanderbilt.edu/news/news_rubberneck.htm. For more Vanderbilt news, visit: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news.

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