Imagine you’re having a conversation with someone and they ask you to tell them about the movie “Hitchcock” that you saw last week with Will Smith. For you to even begin your thought sequence, your mind wants to recall the name “Hitchcock” on the cover of the DVD box from Blockbuster. In order to do this, your eyes move up and to the right…
What your eyes new position indicates is the initial activation, maintenance and transmission of the image of the DVD cover. Like any other time, when you are asked for information that requires the accessing of an image, your eyes go upward (to the left, middle or right).
This process is called the “initial replication” cue. Now once the image has been established, it can be, and usually will be moved to the prefrontal cortex (front of your head) so that from there it can be moved to virtually any other part of the visual field. But why the heck would your brain move the image around? We’re getting to that…
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So today we dealt with all three visual vertical positions, tomorrow we will deal with the left and right visual fields and the lower fields of Kinesthetic and Auditory Digital. Once we understand all of these we can speak more intelligently about the efficacy of reading them.
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Hi David,
I found your articles on Eye Accessing Cues quite interesting.
Particularly the paragraph on: “Where ever the eyes go, the head and then eventually the body follows. So the eyes moving upward is mainly for the purpose of helping to tilt the head back and increase gravitational blood flow to the visual cortex. ”
This is interesting but not necessarily accurate. Since the part of the brain responsible for physical sensation is at the top of the head, it doesn’t hold that looking down brings greater blood flow to the area.
One hypothesis that came to me but that I’ve never tested or taken forward is that eye position channels light energy in a certain direction which ends up stimulating specific parts of the brain.
Notice how this might hold:
Sight can be stimulated by gazing forward or up. If you trace a line that goes from line of sight into the brain, you’ll land on the visual cortex.
Sound can be stimulated by looking laterally. Take a look on a brain map where the auditory cortex is found: right on the sides.
If someone looks down and you trace a line from line of sight into the brain, you’ll land right on the part responsible for physical sensation.
Might light be responsible for stimulating the brain? Might the eyes be the lenses that channel light to specific parts of the brain?
What do you think?
Hi Steve,
I really appreciate your time in reading my post and giving a well thought out comment. Let me preface my response with the fact that I am only a part-time neurologist
As such I employ everyone to do their own research to keep me honest…
It is important to understand that although gravity is a factor in the movement of blood volume during head movement, it is not necessarily a draining effect that moves the blood. Simple inertia resulting from gravity also works to keep the blood “still” while the head moves “around it”. Take auditory access for instance, the head is simply moving from side to side and as such there is no draining of blood, only “movement” to parts such as the Broca’s area.
With respect to experiencing and processing light, the information that we receive is based on frequency and regardless of the angle that the light is presented to the retina (unless it is out of peripheral vision) the frequency doesn’t not change. As such, the information is processed and disseminated according to that frequency (for instance a blue shirt against a white wall presents different frequencies at their intersection and the “difference” is the root of what is processed). It is not the eyes necessarily that channel the light (meaning the lens) but the retinal wall and the optic nerve that are at first responsible for (at a course level) filtering and channeling the information to the visual thalamus (which shoots rough information directly to the amygdala for immediate fight/flight processing) and then along to the visual cortex (for finer processing and dissemination along to the prefrontal cortex [complete processing] and medial temporal lobe [memory development]).
If you are really interested in finding out more, I implore you to do some in depth research. I would be very interested to hear more from your findings. Thanks again for commenting and please keep in touch.
DP