{"id":202569,"date":"2024-12-27T12:26:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T18:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/big-brother-the-effects-of-surveillance-on-fundamental-aspects-of-social-vision"},"modified":"2024-12-27T12:26:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T18:26:26","slug":"big-brother-the-effects-of-surveillance-on-fundamental-aspects-of-social-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/big-brother-the-effects-of-surveillance-on-fundamental-aspects-of-social-vision","title":{"rendered":"Big brother: the effects of surveillance on fundamental aspects of social vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/big-brother-the-effects-of-surveillance-on-fundamental-aspects-of-social-vision2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness psychology researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked with 54 participants to examine the effects of surveillance on an essential function of human sensory perception \u2013 the ability to detect another person\u2019s gaze.<\/p>\n<p>Lead author, Associate Professor of neuroscience and behaviour Kiley Seymour, said previous research has established the effects on conscious behaviour when people know they are being watched, but the new study provided the first direct evidence that being watched also has an involuntary response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know CCTV changes our behaviour, and that\u2019s the main driver for retailers and others wanting to deploy such technology to prevent unwanted behaviour,\u201d Associate Professor Seymour said.<\/p>\n<p>However, we show it\u2019s not only overt behaviour that changes \u2013 our brain changes the way it processes information.<\/p>\n<p>We found direct evidence that being conspicuously monitored via CCTV markedly impacts a hardwired and involuntary function of human sensory perception \u2013 the ability to consciously detect a face.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a mechanism that evolved for us to detect other agents and potential threats in our environment, such as predators and other humans, and it seems to be enhanced when we\u2019re being watched on CCTV.<\/p>\n<p>Our surveilled participants became hyper aware of face stimuli almost a second faster than the control group. This perceptual enhancement also occurred without participants realising it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/big-brother-the-effects-of-surveillance-on-fundamental-aspects-of-social-vision\">Continue reading \u201cBig brother: the effects of surveillance on fundamental aspects of social vision\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a paper published in the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness psychology researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked with 54 participants to examine the effects of surveillance on an essential function of human sensory perception \u2013 the ability to detect another person\u2019s gaze. Lead author, Associate Professor of neuroscience and behaviour Kiley Seymour, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}