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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