Observations from Cognitive Psych Course
Jan 23, 2017 15:36:37 GMT -5 by Amsterdam
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Post by Amsterdam on Jan 23, 2017 15:36:37 GMT -5
This may or may not be of value to anyone on the forum, but at the very least, posting some things here will help me solidify some concepts and principles I am learning about in my Cognitive Psychology university class.
To start off the thread, I came across the term "saccadic suppression" in my textbook reading today, which can be defined as:
EDIT: Apparently, I completely forgot that Sandoval thoroughly discussed this aspect within Cognitive Type within the 'Se' section. Thus, this post is pretty much redundant
"...[the] brain temporarily suppress[ing] visual processing when you make an eye movement...As a result, you only "see" when your eyes are not moving. Therefore, the eye movement is acting as a film edit and presents you with a visual discontinuity that you hardly notice."
This got me thinking about the extroverted perception functions Ne & Se and their visual signals. Take Ne's "Strong
Eye-Toggling" (Ne-10), where the individual is in heavy cognitive processing but not actually "seeing" anything that they're looking at - they are sensing and making abstract connections using current and stored data clusters. There seems to be a connection between this saccadic suppression where the Ne eyes of its user are moving rapidly, yet they are not actively detecting any external environmental information in that moment (i.e. sensation), but merely "applying meaning to encoded sensations" (i.e. perception). I think this saccadic suppression may also help confirm Ne's propensity to have more scattered movements that seem to drift around and brush the environment, rather than stop and take in environmental information in a more locked-in fashion that Se does.
Speaking of which, this idea may also confirm that Se does in fact take in environmental information in a more concrete fashion in that there appears to be less eye movement in general and a more locked-on behavior. Se is actually taking in environmental information since Se user's eyes have the propensity to be locked on and move less than the Ne user's eyes (Se-3 & Se-5, for instance). Obviously, I'm not saying that Se users are immune to saccadic suppression, but perhaps they do so less often than a Ne user in general, but depending on type of course...??
Anyway, food for thought! I will post other observations and correlations I may find with CT as time allows...please feel free to jump in and dismantle
To start off the thread, I came across the term "saccadic suppression" in my textbook reading today, which can be defined as:
EDIT: Apparently, I completely forgot that Sandoval thoroughly discussed this aspect within Cognitive Type within the 'Se' section. Thus, this post is pretty much redundant
This got me thinking about the extroverted perception functions Ne & Se and their visual signals. Take Ne's "Strong
Eye-Toggling" (Ne-10), where the individual is in heavy cognitive processing but not actually "seeing" anything that they're looking at - they are sensing and making abstract connections using current and stored data clusters. There seems to be a connection between this saccadic suppression where the Ne eyes of its user are moving rapidly, yet they are not actively detecting any external environmental information in that moment (i.e. sensation), but merely "applying meaning to encoded sensations" (i.e. perception). I think this saccadic suppression may also help confirm Ne's propensity to have more scattered movements that seem to drift around and brush the environment, rather than stop and take in environmental information in a more locked-in fashion that Se does.
Speaking of which, this idea may also confirm that Se does in fact take in environmental information in a more concrete fashion in that there appears to be less eye movement in general and a more locked-on behavior. Se is actually taking in environmental information since Se user's eyes have the propensity to be locked on and move less than the Ne user's eyes (Se-3 & Se-5, for instance). Obviously, I'm not saying that Se users are immune to saccadic suppression, but perhaps they do so less often than a Ne user in general, but depending on type of course...??
Anyway, food for thought! I will post other observations and correlations I may find with CT as time allows...please feel free to jump in and dismantle
