Exploring Eye Accessing Cues | Part 3 of 3 | Visual Fields

In my previous post we discussed the vertical activation and redistribution of images through the upper, middle and lower fields of vision. The other and more important component for the purpose of accurate “lie detection” is the horizontal activation. Rather than some long rehash, let’s just get right into it…

As you probably already know, we have a left and right hemisphere in our brain and each side has different attributes that allow each to perform different functions. Our Left Visual Field (LVF) is wired directly into the right visual cortex residing in the right hemisphere. Right Visual Field (RVF) is wired directly into the left visual cortex residing in the left hemisphere.

The (RVF) has small, non-overlapping fields, sees only in 2 dimensions, can allow parts of the image to move independently, it encodes color, can attain high resolution and is finely tuned. (RVF) can encode motion, but much less efficiently than (LVF). This field requires far more time to process.

The (LVF) produces vague and global images with large fields of vision. It has broad, overlapping fields that can see 3 dimensions. The image can only move as a whole, motion can efficiently be encoded in the (LVF) and it has low resolution, low detail and as such has far faster processing speed.

What is incredibly important for us to recognize is that it is much easier and quicker to create an image in the LVF due to the processing efficiency and speed.

Based on the attributes above, horizontal activation occurs and is optimal for two reasons:

1. In order to see motion, we will need to move our eyes to the left, to move or transmit an image we need to turn our eyes to the right.
2. Memory is being accessed in the upper left due to inertia, the least energy principle and operant conditioning toward a preference for speed.

Because of the significant difference (relatively) in processing speed between the LVF and RVF, initial image establishment almost exclusively occurs in the LVF. The only time the eyes will go up and to the right (the RVF) is when some sort of processing of the image is necessary for retrieval such as cleaving and recombining of information.

PET scans have proven that regional blood volume increases in the right prefrontal cortex during retrieval/replication of memory and to the left prefrontal cortex during encoding (incorporation of sensory information).

When questions are asked that require more detail whether that is definition, color or contrast, or transmitting, cleaving and recombining of information, through the process of degeneracy (the process by which one neural network represents the same information as another) the information to be honed in on will be originated in the LVF and then transmitted via “solition wave” to the RVF.

This process explains why right handed people originate images to the left and then move images to the right when performing most visual construct operations that requiring spatial cleaving and recombining. Images will stay in the left or be moved to the left when they require sequential, temporal cleaving and recombining of spatially coherent images.

Auditory, Auditory Digital and Kinesthetic Activation.

Whew… OK. To reiterate, our visual fields are responsible for the overwhelming majority of the informational stimuli we sustain on a daily basis. So as you can imagine, the processes that support that are quite a bit more complicated. Let’s discuss the rest…

From an auditory standpoint, we have the Left Auditory Field (LAF) and the Right Auditory Field (RAF).

• The LAF is responsible for phonetic, sequential and rhythmic processing.
• The RAF is responsible for processing language and changes in pitch and inflection.

Both of these processes happen in what is called Wernicke’s area in the brain. These are two regions just above both ears and movement of the head assists in regional blood flow to both areas. This is why people will look left when hearing the exact words that were said and to the right when they are hearing the tone of the voice and inflection.

With respect to our auditory digital activation, there is a part of the brain in the frontal cortex called the Broca’s area which controls articulatory (speech) motor movements. As someone looks down and to the left, gravity assisted blood flow increases in this area and as a result makes it easier to construct speech (remember the principles of inertia?). What this means is that we are accessing motor speech patterns and cleaving/recombining information to produce speech. Thus we have the kinesthetic/auditory digital cue.

From a kinesthetic stand point (solely), looking down and to the right assists the gravitational reorientation of blood volume to the somatosensory cortex. This is responsible for collecting all transmitted motor, tactile, vestibular and emotional information from inside the body and transmitting it back to other areas of the brain for processing.

OK… man this is quite a bit of information. Let me point on the main points though and kind of summarize what they mean…

1. Due to the existence of bimodal and trimodal neurons that integrate senses, it is next to impossible to TOTALLY separate with CERTAIN clarity which sense is being accessed based on their vertical position. What can be determined is that:
   1. In the upward position, they are AT LEAST accessing visual.
   2. In the center position, they are AT LEAST accessing auditory.
   3. In the bottom position, they are AT LEAST accessing kinesthetic or Aid.
2. It can indeed be said with certainty that remembered images originate in the LVF and image construction occurs in the RVF.
3. There is indeed a fairly clean separation between the left and right horizontal fields.

So, can you track someone’s internal sensory accessing cues? At a very basic level, the answer is yes, it can be done. That being said, it is necessary to understand that there are a large number of intricacies involved in doing so. To do it with certainty would take a finely honed skill set and almost clinical conditions. As far as judging a liar by watching their construction cues, this is very difficult to say. The only thing that can be said with certainty is that when they are in the RVF, they are performing some processing on an image. Does this mean that the image is untruthful? That really is almost impossible to say. My contention is that as a lie detector, at best this can only be a compass, not an actual decision point in the process.

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David J. Parnell