{"id":46911,"date":"2012-05-01T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=46911"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:33:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:33:18","slug":"students-brain-flatlines-during-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/05\/01\/students-brain-flatlines-during-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Student&#8217;s Brain Flatlines During Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yikes. \u00a0In a report designed to prove the feasibility of measuring electrodermal activity on subjects going about their daily life, at least one student showed near brain-death during class.<\/p>\n<p>Am I\u00a0exaggerating? \u00a0Yes. \u00a0But, even so, brain patterns during class matched watching TV closer than any other activity on the list. \u00a0Studying and homework, lab work, and socializing got more of his attention&#8230; sleep was a veritable mental work-out compared to class.<\/p>\n<p>Draw whatever conclusions you will&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/132.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46912\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/132.png\" width=\"653\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/132.png 653w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/04\/132-500x320.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/weblog\/2012\/04\/30\/a-week-of-a-stu.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joi Ito<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/04\/30\/students-brain-flatlined-dur.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a>. \u00a0Full text of the paper <a href=\"http:\/\/affect.media.mit.edu\/pdfs\/10.Poh-etal-TBME-EDA-tests.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yikes. \u00a0In a report designed to prove the feasibility of measuring electrodermal activity on subjects going about their daily life, at least one student showed near brain-death during class. Am I\u00a0exaggerating? \u00a0Yes. \u00a0But, even so, brain patterns during class matched watching TV closer than any other activity on the list. \u00a0Studying and homework, lab work, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[209],"class_list":["post-46911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58388,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46911\/revisions\/58388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}