Semantic Stimuli Response Measurement

Semantic Stimuli Response Measurement or SSRM Tek, is a technology complex that interfaces through computer software as a simple game users play that measures their statistically significant subconscious responses to virtually any stimuli effectively screening a persons subconscious for predetermined topics to understand the persons relation to said topics. Semantic Stimuli Response Measurement is the only known commercial Psychotechnology with Psycho-probing capabilities created and developed by Dr. Semyon Ioffe, CEO and head research scientist at Northam Psychotechnologies a Canadian company located in Ottawa, Canada that own the patent-pending rights for North America since 2003.
SSRM technology is based on the universal principles of human behaviour and scientific experimentation. Human beings are the product of information, of their surrounding environment. Any traits, influences, abilities are described and experienced through words, pictures, sound. Information is categorized and prioritized by emotions throughout one’s life. The major content of the human’s informational being is not accessible to his/her conscious mind. It belongs to the subconscious mind. It is a powerful psychological screening tool that is able to determine whether stimuli, in the form of words or pictures, bear the testee emotional significance, whether they are aware of it or not. Semantic Stimuli Response Measurement taps into the largest most unfiltered source of information that defines who we are as individuals.
SSRM Tek was created in order to provide treatment for those suffering from mental illness as a psychological diagnostic tool, to establish security clearances in employees of government and corporate enterprise, and act as a completely non-invasive method of information gathering for investigative purposes.
History
The principal research began in 1926, when Dr. Alexander Luria, a Russian scientist, commenced studying the subconscious reactions of criminals replying to questions and simultaneously pressing a special pneumatic rubber bulb. The person undergoing the test was not able to completely control the time and character of their pressing, which made it possible to draw certain conclusions. This is the very principle upon which the polygraph test (lie detector) is based.
Several decades later, with the development of computers, Dr. Igor Smirnov, the father of modern day Psychoecology, and the founder of The Scientific Research Institute of Psychotechnologies received the patent for a method of Psycho-probing using Computer Psycho-semantic Analysis (CPA). In the early 2000s Dr. Semyon Ioffe began work on further developing a far more sophisticated Computer Psycho-semantic Analysis model eventually surpassing Dr. Smirnov's CPA complex with what we know today as Semantic Stimuli Response Measurement. Patents were subsequently filed in 2003. SSRM Tek has since evolved into commercial use and has been used in testing in the USA, Canada, Russia and even Afghanistan.
Early Concepts
The concept of Psycho-semantic Analysis has been discussed amongst scientists for over five decades. In 1953 Jacques Marie Émile Lacan published Fonction et Champ de la Parole et du Langage en Psychanalyse where he argued that speech and, more generally, language were central to psychoanalytic practice and to any theoretical conclusions that might be extrapolated from it. This is where Psycho-semantic Analysis took its roots. This showed that it is possible to obtain responses to subconsciously-presented visual or auditory stimuli measuring the cutaneo galvanic reflex, respiratory reaction, reaction of blockade of an alpha-rhythm in electroencephalography, plethysmography or visual-motor reaction.
Principals
Within the concept of the human psyche, the subconscious mind could be considered as “information”, yet it is unknown where this information is stored. The general informational categories for humans are books, songs, movies, pictures, and other information obtained from their surroundings. The features of this information are that it exists in the way our psyche perceived it, and does not change itself. On the other hand, the features of the subconscious mind as an informational category are developmental and exist in a constantly changing state. The psyche is not a continuum but a multivariate, non-stationary, non-linear, dynamic self-organizing oscillatory process. The substratum of this process and its carrier is the human brain. Parameters of the brain have become gradually accessible to measurements but provide little help on how to study the psyche.
How it Works
SSRM Tek was developed using the universal principles of scientific experimentation. It measures a variety of responses.
Each experiment (test) consists of: a Control, a Probe / Stimuli, a Reper (Reference Point), and a Registered Response.
The relationship between the Control, Probe and Reper is analyzed by measuring deviations between the three components.
Since every person’s psyche is different each person is his or her own control. It is important to understand that every individual test is a complete scientific experiment since it contains all the above-mentioned components.
Control
SSRM Tek’s controls are stimuli that have no meaning to the subject and as such, will not illicit a significant emotional response. This is the baseline.
Probe / Stimuli
The probe is semantically meaningful stimuli in the form of a word or picture. These are the topics being tested for.
Reper (Reference Point)
Reper is a different kind of control. It is a measurement developed to gauge a natural defensive reaction (the subject’s reaction to the “punishment” they receive during the test). This reaction is then measured to know how the subject’s subconscious mind responds defensively.
Registered Response
The subject is asked to push a button. The combined visual and motor reaction to the Controls, Probe and Reper are measured by the response time between stimuli appearing and the subject pushing the button.
Taking the Test
The technology is incorporated into sophisticated software as a simple computer game enabling the user to take the test from almost any Windows-based PC. The only requirements are a computer, mouse and headphones. The user sits in a quiet room and plays a game where they are instructed to click the mouse when they feel they should in response to numbers that flash on the screen. The test can take anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes and test up to 20 different topics. In order to determine mathematically significant responses it will test each topic hundreds of times. Any person in any language can take the test from any culture, even the illiterate.
The user cannot prepare, lie or cheat for the SSRM test because it tests their subconscious mind that they do not have control over. As such the user cannot affect the outcome of the test, nor can the administrator. Neither does the administrator of the test require any kind of special education to administer the test. Once the test is done results are generated however the results are merely incomprehensible data. The data itself means nothing until entered into a results model that is secured in a different location with limited access allowing for security clearance testing to be accomplished in a non-secure environment. Once the data files are fed into the results model, fully analyzed results are immediately generated. SSRM is accurate to a 0.5% false positive rate. In this way can SSRM Tek accurately, efficiently, and cost-effectively screen hundreds of thousands of people for security clearances and maintain the status quo by acting as a deterrent to future crimes or disloyalties.
Scientific Validity
Validation of the Psycho-semantic method is not a simple procedure because current knowledge is based mostly on observation. Currently, in dealing on the observational level, it is difficult to choose the subject both for control and known deviations. For example, with those who are suicidal, until they actually act on their deviation and survive, it is impossible to know whether or not they are actually suicidal. These kinds of patients are usually under medical treatment and therefore it is difficult to evaluate them since they are in different stages of their deviation. Whereas, SSRM Tek allows one to test for these deviations before they are ever manifested.
The following are 4 methods that Semantic Stimuli Response Measurement developers used to validate their results:
* Scientists compared information received from SSRM Tek with information obtained with the help of other investigative sources. For example, they used information obtained from the subject, his/her relatives and co-workers, and other accepted tests. Officials verified information obtained through SSRM Tek with results of lie detector tests and general investigations.
* Experimentally, the scientists included known information, such as the subject’s family name, into the semantic base creating a significant subconscious response to only that name. A person’s family name is an integral part of his identity and has unquestionable significance to the subject. Therefore it can be tested.
* The scientists also compared the SSRM Tek data with other data obtained during diagnostic or treatment procedures accompanied with dissolution of the consciousness. Narco-psychotherapy, amital caffeine disinhibition and initial stages of narcosis were used to diminish the subject’s conscious protective mechanisms, thereby obtaining information not normally available.
* Another validation method utilized was the analysis of the therapeutic effectiveness of treatment. Scientists uncovered areas of concerns that required treatment, such as suicidal tendencies or depression. Post treatment, patients were retested with SSRM Tek, which indicated that these tendencies no longer existed.
Ongoing Validation & Testing
Together with his colleagues since 2006, Dr. Ioffe has published numerous white papers, articles, and perform clinical studies with SSRM Tek as well as host numerous talks and present at prestigious scientific symposiums.
Studies regarding such topics as Psycho-semantic diagnosis of alcoholic dependencies tested at the subconscious level in military personnel with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD),The influencing role of subconscious stimulation during the treatments of the post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol dependencies in military personnel, and Psycho-Semantic spheres of the personality of employees of correctional facilities. have been recently published.
In their most recent paper The Psyche From Within: Three Clinical Case Studies they test 3 women with the same simple symptoms all suffering from different mental ailments using Semantic Stimuli Response Measurement and are able to pinpoint and treat each woman successfully.
More recently, Northam Psychotechnologies performed two tests in Afghanistan from 2008 to 2010 testing ANA personnel with the financial support of the Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan (CSTC-A) using a specialized security screening complex called PASSTool. The PASSTool is a computer program that was specially created for testing purposes in Afghanistan that fully incorporates Semantic Stimuli Response Technology to screen the subconscious minds of ANA personnel.
SSRM Tek has been commercially available since 2009 establishing security clearances in organizations en masse and as a psychological diagnostic tool diagnosing and treating mental illness in North America and Russia. SSRM Technology has also fathered a next generation mental health diagnostic and aid tool called Semantic Mediated Analysis of Responses and Teaching, or SMART Complex.
Further Reading
Articles
Dixon N.F. Subliminal perception: two natures of a controversy. - L.: McGraw-Hill. - 1971. - 118 P.
Shevrin H., Fritzler D.G. Visual evoked potential response correlates of unconscious mental processes // science. - 1968. - N 161. - P. 295-298.
Shevrin H. Neurophysiological correlations of psychodinamic unconscious processes Unconscious, Ô.1. - Tbilisi, Metsniereba,- 1978, Ð¡. 676-691.
Shevrin H., Williams W.J, Marshall R.E. System for assessing verbal psychobiological correlates - US Patent N 4699153. - 1987.
Kostandov E.A. About studying of subsensorial reactions // Bulletin AMN the USSR, 1970, N 1, p 53-59.
Kostandov E.A. About nervous mechanisms of subconscious negative emotions // Issled. Mechanisms of nervous activity., î., 1984, with 244-252.
Kostandov E.A. Consciousness and unconsciousness as a subjects of physiology of the higher nervous system activity in human // Journal of the higher nervous system activity. 1984, Ô.34, N 3, p 401-411.
Smirnov I.V., Kvasovets S.V., Fedorenko V.N. Principles of psychoprobing // Reports of information. The collection of abstracts VIMI. Publication N 11.90.9.39, î., 1990, With. 101-109.
Smirnov I.V., Beznosjuk E.V. Diagnostics and correction using psycho semantic methods. Sb. Scientific. Works for not medicinal therapy of diagnostics and correction of health. MMA him. Setchenov, î., 1993.
Smirnov I.V., Beznosjuk E.V. Computer psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Journal of Medical Help N 4, 1994.
Smirnov I.V., Beznosjuk E.V. Method of not subconscious psychotherapy, psycho correction and psycho semantic analysis with subthreshold introduction of the information. Journal Psychotherapy of Russia, N 3, 1994.
Smirnov I.V., Beznosjuk E.V. Computer psycho technologies of the semantic analysis of unconscious. Russian Psycho analysis bulletin, N 3, 1994.
Williams et al.; “A Transinformation Measure of Word Meaning in Evoked Potentials”; 4-1984.
Shevrin; “Unconscious Conflict: A Convergent Psychodynamic and Electrophysiological Approach”; Emotional & Cognitive Factors in Unconscious Processes, Stanford, Calif., 7-1984.
Boudrot et al.; “A Clinical Feedback EEG System”; Am. J. EEG Technol., No. 3, 9-1976, pp. 117-127. “A Continuous Information Theoretic Approach . . . “, , Fuller and Williams; Biological Cybernetics, Jun. 20, 1982.
Shevrin and Rennick “Cortical Response to Tactile Stimulus . . . “, , Psychophysiology, vol. 3, No. 4, 1967.
Shevrin and Fritzler “Visual Evoked Response Correlates . . . “, , Science, vol. 161, pp. 295-298, Jul. 19, 1968.
Shevrin and Fritzler “Brain Response Correlates of Repressiveness”, , Psychological Reports, 1968, 887-92, 12/68.
Shevrin, Smith, and Fritzler “Repressiveness as a Factor in the Subliminal . . . “, ,The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, vol. 149, No. 3, 1969.
Shevrin and Smith “Subliminally Stimulated Brain and Verbal Responses . . . “, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1970, vol. 75, No. 1, 39-46.
Shevrin, Smith, and Hoobler “Direct Measurement of Unconscious Mental Processes: . . . “, Proceedings, 78th Annual Convention, APA 1970.
Shevrin and Smith “Average Evoked Response and Verbal Correlates . . . “, , Psychophysiology, vol. 8, No. 2, 1971.
Shevrin “Brain Wave Correlates of Subliminal Stimulation . . . “, Psychological Issues Monograph 30, Psychoanalytic Research, vol. III, No. 2, 1973.
Shevrin “Evoked Potential Evidence for Unconscious Mental Processes: A Review of the Literature” , International Symposium on the Unconscious, Tsibili, Georgia, USSR, 1978.
Shevrin “Some Assumptions of Psychoanalytic Communication: . . . “, Communicative Structures and Psychic Structures, 1977.
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Patents
Ioffe S. Semantic Stimuli Response Measurement - US patent N 20100009325 - 2003.
Shevrin H., Williams W.J, Marshall R.E. System for assessing verbal psychobiological correlates - US Patent N 4699153. - 1987.1
Smirnov I. V. et all Psycho ecology methodology - USSR patent N 303125. 1987.4
Smirnov I. V. Method of Psycho probing- RF patent N 2218867. 2002.12
Books
Shevrin, Howard (Editor) and Fisher, Charles Subliminal Explorations of Perceptions, Dreams, and Fantasies: The Pioneering Contributions of Charles Fisher International Universities Press; 1st edition (August 2003) ISBN 0-82-366248-9
Shevrin, Howard and Williams, William J., and Brakel, Linda A.W. Conscious and Unconscious Processes: Psychodynamic, Cognitive, and Neurophysiological Convergences The Guilford Press; 1 edition (May 24, 1996) ISBN 1-57-230091-4
I.V. Smirnov, E. Beznosyuk, A. Suravlyev, “Psychotechnologies”, 416 pages -M.: Progress Publisher 1995 ISBN 5-01-004582-6

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