"According to the traditional view, the brain accesses the meaning – or the memory – of an object after you perceive it," Cacciamani said.

That "traditional view" eliminates unconsciousness. And dreams.
Against what literature is this research directed?

The Mind's Eyes: Human pheromones, neuroscience, and male sexual preferences
http://www.sexarc...kohl.htm

Hormone-organized and hormone-activated responses to visual input are classically conditioned via the epigenetic effects of food odors and pheromones in vertebrates and invertebrates.

The pseudoscientific nonsense that attempts to link visual input directly to unconscious affects on behavior does so by eliminating the link from the effects of odor on hormones to their affect on behavior, which links the epigenetic landscape to the physical landscape of DNA in the organized genomes of species from microbes to man via RNA-mediated events, not via evolutionary events.

No evolutionary events have been described. If any ever are, they may link mutations and sexual selection to the evolution of sexual preferences for the visual appeal of a potential mate. But there is no model for that. The only model of biologically-based cause and effect is cell type differentiation.

JVK - spammer James V Kohl, selling the same pheromone perfume scam for 15 years. What an impoverished mind.

"The Mind's Eyes: Human pheromones, neuroscience, and male sexual preferences" is an award-winning book chapter, concurrently published in the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality.

See also, my comments at:

http://phys.org/n...firstCmt

http://www.ncbi.n...24693353

"The result of this synergy is (1) a liver enzyme that oxidizes trimethylamine to (2) an odor that causes (3) species-specific behaviors. Thus, the complex systems that biology required to get from nutrient acquisition and nutrient metabolism to species-specific odor-controlled behavior is exemplified by adaptive evolution of an attractive odor to mice that repels rats (see for review Li et al., 2013).

The mouse odor also repels humans. High excretion rates of trimethylamine-associated odor in humans cause 'fish odor syndrome'. The aversive body odor has been attributed to a mutation (Dolphin, Janmohamed, Smith, Shephard, & Phillips, 1997). This attribution is not consistent with the portrayal of synergy in the mouse model, which enables both the production of the odor and the response to the odor.

This synergy requires at least two things to happen simultaneously..."

animah probably used a product that made him smell more like a fish

@JVK The pseudoscientific nonsense that attempts to link visual input directly to unconscious affects on behavior does so by eliminating the link from the effects of odor on hormones to their affect on behavior
'Afffect' is a verb, not a noun. Twice in one sentence. Nice job.

Did you know Jesus means 'son of Isis' and Isis is the mother of Horus, the sungod? So you're not worshiping the 'son of gawd' but the sun itself. No different at all from the people your kind murdered over your 'superior religion'

Epigenetic effects on hormones lead to the affects of hormones on behavior.

I learned the proper use of effect and affect in the early 90's. See for a recent example via the need for a correction:http://www.pnas.o...1.2.full]http://www.pnas.o...1.2.full[/url]

Correction for McEwen, Brain on stress: How the social environment gets under the skin
COLLOQUIUM Correction for "Brain on stress: How the social environment gets under the skin," by Bruce S. McEwen, which appeared in supplement 2, October 16, 2012, of Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (109:17180–17185; first published October 8, 2012; 10.1073/pnas.1121254109).

The authors note that on page 17184, right column, first paragraph, line 4, "effect" should instead appear as "affect."

http://www.pnas.o...1.2.full]http://www.pnas.o...1.2.full[/url]