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The Television Medium according to Australian psychologists Merrelyn and Fred Emery explain television as being a repetitive, radiant light signal with the following neurological affects:
 * The constant, repetitive signal from the screen fixates the viewer, dominating the prefrontal areas of the brain causing a habitual response.
 * The left hemisphere of the brain (analytical and calculating processes) is reduced in function to tracking the rapid camera changes on the screen (television deliberately does this compared to an unedited home movie pointing at the one place).
 * Viewers who continue to watch the screen are unlikely able to reflect on what they are doing or viewing due to the constant occupation of the left hemisphere of the brain. TV viewing is goal-seeking but purposeless and it's end is in its immediate consumption.
 * The immediate consumption of TV is inherently rewarding; it is an irrational reward that has no in-built stop signals. People can be seduced from purposeful behaviour in such a way that they are unable to become aware of the deficit.
 * Prolonged television viewing produces the same results as sensory deprivation
 * Despite colour being processed in the right hemisphere of the brain, the natural response to colour is passive and not analytical.
 * The part of the brain tied more directly to emotional concerns, will be released from direct control of the higher centers during viewing with predictable consequences for the viewer