Re: Subliminal advertising

From: Bill Spight (bspight@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu Apr 18 2002 - 15:30:50 BST

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From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net>
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    Dear Wade,

    > The messages
    > each displayed for only 1/3000th of a second at a time, far below the
    > viewers' threshold of conscious perceptibility.

    That's probably 1/30 sec. But I thought that films then were shown at 24
    frames per sec.

    And that is very close to threshold. The illusion of continuity starts
    around 20 frames per sec.

    Ciao,

    Bill

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