According to the proposed hypothesis, graphic characters trigger the subcortical visual route. The reaction discussed is very weak.
Yet, its very existence has an unusual importance: characters and occluded venomous snakeskin patterns reveal themselves as conflatable. Furthermore, following tractogra - phic research, a functional segregation of the subcortical pathway is to be presupposed.
The outc omes of lecture will gradually appear probabilistically much more peaceful than encountering a venomous snake, though, and thus a continuous lessening of the reaction is expectable. Here, on one hand, it is relevant that the subcortical visual pathway goes to the amygdala.
The reactions we describe tap into goal-oriented processes, and they will do that un fettered. On the other hand, in the case of characters, since the beginning, fear has been converted into appetition to a great degree.
This process should be fostered in the presence of light. In this way, luminosity might become a conditioned stimulus for attraction. In this case, a Pavlovian addiction for light will foster, yet alsoβfrom the point of view of reward fee lingβcounterbalance the lessening of the stimulation elicited by characters.
