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Your past experiences, most of which reside outside your conscious awareness, play heavily in your comprehension of current events. No one sets out to misunderstand what is happening while working in a high-risk, high-consequence environment. Yet it happens…a lot! Can someone hear something and not understand what they hearing? But stress, coupled with the perception of consequence, compounded by the compression of time and a sense of urgency to act, can accelerate your need to comprehend.
This speeding up can lead the brain to take shortcuts.
Flawed comprehension is a barrier to situational awareness. This article provides an explanation of how humans comprehend and how it can go wrong. Day 3 - Cardio Power and Resistance Since I just started Insanity on Monday, July 4th, I've had quite a few people ask me how this compares.
The good news is your brain is pretty good at this task. It compares current inputs to past experiences and, with lightening speed, guides you to comprehension. The problem is, you may not know whether you comprehend or not until after your decision is made and the outcome is revealed. Your brain is an amazing organ.
It can take electrical impulses from all five senses, slice them, dice them, reassemble them, compare them, and contrast them into understanding in less time than it takes you to blink your eyes.
When the inputs are compatible, comprehension is expedited. For example, when you see an onion, smell an onion, taste an onion, and your eyes water, there is little doubt in your mind that you are in the presence of an onion. Your brain takes all the inputs, assesses them, determines they are congruent and you comprehend.
But what might happen in your brain if you simultaneously saw an onion, smelled a lemon, and tasted fish? While this example is exaggerated for effect, similar things can happen when you least expect them…or desire them. Despite advances in neuroscience, we yet, to this day, do not understand how the senses are able to integrate, assemble, and comprehend it all. However, research has shown the integration can go horribly wrong.
While it may seem obvious, research has proven that sensory integration the combining of sensory inputs in the brain, can produce confusion.
When this happens, the senses have to figure out which sensory input is correct, eyes or ears. Because the visual cortex is the largest of all the sensory processors, you are likely to default to what you see.
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It simply means in the brain the visual cortex has the most power based on size to influence comprehension. Sometimes your brain plays tricks on you.
It confabulates the truth. Stated another way, it makes things up that are not true. Complicating sensory integration, it is possible for you to look at something and, at the same time, have multiple conflicting inputs sent to the visual processor.
For example, if you were asked to read and remember a list of seven words, in order, flashed on a screen one at a time, and each word stayed on the screen for 2 seconds. When it was done, you were asked to write down the seven words. The task could be made easier by integrating two visual inputs that creates congruence in the visual processor.
If we did that, the list would look like this:. But what happens when visual inputs are complicated by non-congruent information? Imagine if the list flashed before you read like this:.
As you would expect, the task becomes more complex because the eyes are seeing two different things simultaneously. In this example, as you read the word red, your eyes are processing the color yellow. This confuses the brain. Clearly, the task of comprehension becomes more of a challenge as the conflicts among the various inputs increase. Imagine how the task could be complicated even more if non-congruent smells were introduced — for example, when the word red was flashed, in yellow letters, with a blue background, while the smell of an orange was present.
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