Silvia Stein
Deficits in face to face (f2f) interaction have been associated with autism and schizophrenia, due to the malfunction of mirror neurons. Regarding autism is Article Understanding Emotions in Others: Mirror Neuron Dysfunction ...
and regarding enfacement illusion in schizophrenia is Article Shared multisensory experience affects Others' boundary: The...
A basic philosophical discussion on the issue of facial imagery and its power is Gallese's articleArticle The power of images: A view from the brain-body.
The subconscious’ grammar before written & verbal language are images (Frog, 2015, established this in Mythology in Cultural Practice A Methodological Framework for Historical Analysis https://www.academia.edu/14636448/Mythology_in_Cultural_Practice_A_Methodological_Framework_for_Historical_Analysis ). I established a predictive theory of visual organization for cognitive archaeology, with applications in psychological warfare (Stein, 2017), though Gallese poetically presents this as an aesthetic discussion. Most importantly, Gallese brings up the Cartesian Dualism problem, how can images exceed the sum of the parts of the brain involved in processing them. According to Carlo Severi (2007, Chimera Principle), images in themselves have moral agency informing our selection of actions, as if we were furniture for images to occupy (Ian Stevenson, MD, Vol. II Etiology & Biology, 1997, p. 2090), yet images aren’t reducible to, nor limited by, our material substance. In a sense, this is part of a long discussion towards eventual censorship of what images are harmful if they occupy our brain like a piece of furniture, as it has been understood since the 1960's Albert Bandura studies that violence is most easily learned visually, and which images we wish to influence us positively. An example of images projecting Gallese's discussion of the hand effect, with possible correlations with sign language, are in Cognitive Archaeology Ch.5 Uomini on prehistoric 'handedness' in language as a cognitive style & Ch. 9 Pelegrin on early hand tool making at https://cognitivearchaeologyblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/wynn-t-2009-cognitive_archaeology_and_human_evolution.pdf Besides cognitive associations with handedness, faces, as visuals, have been used in social media as a form of social gratification and media currency in visual transaction theory. An article on the neurological and emotional processes involved isArticle Reflection of the Emotional Significance of Visual Stimuli i...
My comment on this last article summarizing its implications follows. My interest in this article is on "the greater biological importance of negative emotional signals for an absolute majority of individuals" in cases of fulfilling one's generationally evolved motivation as part of species survivability against non-indigenous corruption of morals. As western media has thoroughly corrupted it can uncorrupt moral values that have evolved for 40,000 years before the existence of electronic media. This study corresponds with cultivation of violence studies and the role of visual, not audio, based media in effectively priming the audience for higher emotional reaction/gratification towards acts of violence so that an entire nation uses violent visual based media, and closed-circuit institutional video surveillance (cc-tv), as a currency, rather than non-violent media images in the systemic corruption of national moral values. Essentially the attraction to violent media is cultivated, with potential to alter current RNA and generationally the DNA of a species. The 'emotional 'high' experienced for currency/gratification, in a visual media violence transactional model, is "related to the greater significance of negative emotional information for an individual; this leads to more rapid processing of such information." This could also begin to explain the perceptual difference/gap between real victims of physical violence and the passive audience that has 'grown-up' watching media violence, and the inefficiency of jury systems in such 'media cultivated' nations in regards to the constitutional rights of citizens who are victims of mob aggression and bullying 'spectacles'. As in signatory nations, such as Russia, that have actively adhered to the Bologna Process under the European Union, emotional sensitivity and emotional intelligence should be addressed through the preschool-university academic curricula forming academics and professionals who are emotionally and critically competent in regards to a preconscious cultivated society adhering to a grammar of violent visual rhetoric in judicial cc-tv 'transactional' theories. Besides Albert Bandura and George Gerbner, Rick Busselle is a good source on the visual priming for release or gratification of aggression and visual media transactional theory, such as in the U.S.A. who has cultivated, through visually graphic violence sensationalization in news coverage, the 'mean world' theory of U.S. 'against the world (first articulated by George Gerbner).
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