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What Satiation? (2012)

By popsicle on November 4, 2012 11:02 pm

"When a word is repeatedly produced or perceived, many people experience what has become known as the semantic satiation effect, a subjective and temporary loss of the meaning of that word." Consider this in the context of a thought: repeated over and over, how long does it take to lose its meaning...or does it gain in intensity?**



Realised in Pro Tools v.10. Admittedly, I imagined the recorded outcome would be less mundane. In any event, the results of my experiment drew two different outcomes: 1) I found that the word "what", when repeated over and over for a duration of 5-minutes did not lose its meaning. I predict that this is in itself a phenomena peculiar to the word "what"; and  2) The word "what" repeated over and over coupled with a conscious lapse of attention, lost meaning around the 41 second mark.


**N.B. Personally, the act of repeating a thought whether in mind or on paper, does not serve to diminish its presence or "power" (as psychologists have led me to believe).

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ooh. Do you think it has something to do with how fast the word is repeated?

The second outcome is true, once i lost my initial attention, it completely lost meaning and it felt more of a blur than a repeated word, once i consciously realize what is happening, the what had meaning again.

Did not expect something like this here, radical.

I kept waiting for the drop....

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