I found this interesting when I first noticed it. It is similar to many of the studies I am reading for the psychology of HCI seminar I am taking this semester.
“Violent or erotic images cause momentary periods of emotion-induced blindness”
By Melanie Moran
Published: August 11, 2005If your partner seems to be ignoring you after a flash of nudity on the television screen, it might not be his or her fault: A new psychological study finds that when people are shown violent or erotic images they frequently fail to process what they see immediately afterwards.