Reading and Calculating With Your Unconscious

lee1 writes "Using special techniques that present information to one eye while hiding the information from the conscious mind (by masking it with more distracting imagery presented to the other eye), researchers have shown two new and very unexpected things: we can read and understand short sentences, and we can perform multi-step arithmetic problems, entirely unconsciously. The results of the reading and calculating are available to and influence the conscious mind, but we remain unaware of their existence. While we have known for some time that a great deal of sensory processing occurs below the surface and affects our deliberative behavior, it was widely believed until now that the subconscious was not able to actually do arithmetic or parse sentences."

I knew that

[Anonymous Coward]

Like when my wife insists that we had an entire conversation about taking out the trash while I was playing a video game.

OK

[colinrichardday]

My students can't even do this consciously. :)

Re:I knew that

[oodaloop]

Indeed. He should have posted his own comment in order to karmawhore, like the rest of us.

Re:I knew that

[cellocgw]

Like when my wife insists that we had an entire conversation about taking out the trash while I was playing a video game.
You did, you know: like all other conversations with her, it consisted of her talking and you tacitly agreeing. :-)