Poker, FOV, and Response of the brain
 

Could the position of things in ones field of view effect how the brain deals
with the incoming information?

In this day of the mega display (19" and up) more of ones field of vision is
filled with information. Based on human tendency to be either left brained or
right brained (hair brained not withstanding) it stands to reason that spatial
location of objects in the FOV are processed by different parts of the brain.

There are studies that have shown that when the two halves of the brain are
separated they clearly take on different roles.
"With their communications link severed, each side of the patient's brain was
functioning independently. Although this did not prevent his ability to walk,
talk and eat, some unexpected findings were encountered in some of the higher
brain functions when each side was examined independently of the other.
The right hand and eye could name an object, such as a pencil, but the patient
could not explain what it was used for. When shown to the left hand and eye, the
patient could explain and demonstrate its use, but could not name it. Further
studies showed that various functions of thought are physically separated and
localized to a specific area on either the left or right side of the human
brain. This functional map is consistent for an estimated 70 to 95 percent of
us." Quoted from Dan Eden at http://www.viewzone.com/bicam.html

My idea is that by keeping stimuli to one side or the other we can control, to
some degree which side of our brain processes the information.

It is important to remember that the human body is cross wired so that the left
side of the brain control the right side of the body and vice versa.

A perfect example would be the playing of online poker. Since the left side of
the brain is the side most suited to dealing with numbers and logical reasoning
I suspect that keeping your poker table (or tables) to the right side of the
screen, or to the right most of a dual monitor setup should force the left brain
to process most of the incoming information.

I'm interested in everyone’s comments on this.

JD

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I've tracked all sorts of nonsense with my online poker play -- days of the week, time of day, what movie I'm watching, movie music, etc etc -- but I've always had my left monitor set with 4 tables o' PP goodness and my right monitor set for a movie / websurfing / work / etc etc.

Interesting... Will flip and track.

Barron Vangor Toth
BarronVangorToth.com

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Hmm... that's interesting. I was considering a second monitor, but I feel I'd want the tables on the right screen, and reference material on the left. Same way I tend to do it with one screen. I'm right handed, if that affects the discussion.

But then I tend to look slightly over to my right shoulder when I concentrate on something to. Guess that could all be part of being right handed.

In any event, I seem to remember from health classes somewhere that information crosses from one side of the brain to the other through the a bundle of connecting nerves. Which is what they shred when a lobotomy is done. Though I cannot recall what that structure was called, nor was I able to find exactly what I was looking for in a quick look on the web.

So my belief was, that as long as that connection was there, there would be some transfer of abilities from one side to the other. But that may be mistaken. Anyone else know for sure? Perhaps the corpus callosum?

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no, i am a psych major. this does not hold true. as long as both sides are connected, the transfer of information is very fast and both hemispheres of the brain are processing the stimuli.

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I'm not proposing that it is a total switch from one side to the other. I am speaking of the possiblity that some bias may exist.

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we have lived with ourselves for decades and our bodys left and right coordination is so strong that both sides fully process information with 0 bias without a severed corpus callosum(sp). Even with a severed one, we still interact so well together it is almost impossible to detect until we look at reaction times of about 0.2 seconds. For the ppl that have it conencted, this is 0. No bias.

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Which side do you want processing the information from your poker client, the slow, plodding, unimaginative analytical side, or the brilliant, insightful, swift intuitive side? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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In any event, I seem to remember from health classes somewhere that information crosses from one side of the brain to the other through the a bundle of connecting nerves. Which is what they shred when a lobotomy is done. Though I cannot recall what that structure was called, nor was I able to find exactly what I was looking for in a quick look on the web.

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You mean the corpus callosum? It's very very unlikely that the corpus callosum would be damaged in a lobotomy because it's centrally located while lobotomies were really more of a 'poke the brain and see what happens' affairs so they tended to deal with exterior parts of the brain.

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Hmm... that's interesting. I was considering a second monitor, but I feel I'd want the tables on the right screen, and reference material on the left. Same way I tend to do it with one screen. I'm right handed, if that affects the discussion.

But then I tend to look slightly over to my right shoulder when I concentrate on something to. Guess that could all be part of being right handed.

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This is probably not poker related or anything, but I am right handed with two monitors and I tend to put the tables on the right side...but...

My setup tends to have me looking over my LEFT shoulder and I tend to use the mouse with my LEFT hand, which is the opposite of what you currently do.

I dont know the importance of what I just typed, but it seemed cool...

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Very Interesting....

I've had my right contact lens out the last few sessions,
might that be why I'm down 25 BB's?