2710997 comment Comment New Market (Score 1) 249 by KG6 on Friday October 19, 2007 @01:57AM (#21037323) Attached to: Cellphone Use On Planes Coming Soon? This could form a new niche market for in-ear monitors.
106950 story Subliminal Messages Might Actually Work 172 Posted by kdawson on Saturday March 10, 2007 @10:17PM from the buy-popcorn-now dept. GrumpySimon writes "New research indicates that subliminal messages may actually work. In a paper titled Attentional Load Modulates Responses of Human Primary Visual Cortex to Invisible Stimuli, Bahrani et al. demonstrate that even though stimuli may not be available to consciousness, they are processed by the visual cortex. While I'm sure that marketing agencies all over the world are rubbing their hands in glee at this news, the authors report that there's no evidence that this can make people buy things against their will. So with any luck the use of subliminal messages in advertising will remain an urban legend."