Research Into Subliminal Messaging By Watanabe

We all come into contact with subliminal messages every day. They are simply words or images which are designed to affect a person withoutthem knowing.

Recently, a team of researchers at Boston University in the Center for Memory and Brain research (led by a professor of psychology called Takeo Watanabe) undertook some subliminal research i.e. research into subliminal messaging, with some extremely interesting findings about how subliminal learning can influence the human mind.

People experience subliminal learning; when words are spoken below the limit of our hearing, or images are displayed at a speed much faster than the human eye.

Watanabe's team used perception tests to conduct their research. The groups were asked to watch letters flashing on monitors and to t remember those in a specific colour. As the letters flashed, moving dots appeared - but BELOW people's line of vision

However long the groups took take to identify the direction and movement of dots was noted. The expiriment was repeated many times, and evenutally researchers found that participants were actually learning subliminally!

People could identify dots even though they were out of the immediate line of sight, as well as focusing on the letters simultaneously and they were also able to remember the information in between the tests.

In his follow up research Watanabe found that even after a gap of 6 months the same participants managed to recall all they had learnt from the first tests! Giving even more support to the theory of subliminal learning.

To finish off here is a quote from Watanabe:

“The pronunciation of a new language could improve if the data was presented in a subliminal way. It's possible to influence our brains without much effort needed physically."

So - according to Watanabe subliminal language learning is possible!