The Cognitive Neuroscience of Film
A Workshop at Washington University

Everyday events are complex, dynamic, and fleeting. So too is film. How does the nervous system extract meaning from real or filmed events? Film theory, particularly that which is empirically oriented, has a lot to say to psychologists and neuroscientists about this problem. At the same time, recent research in cognitive neuroscience has implications for how the mind understands film. The goal of this workshop is to bring together recent research on perceptual psychology and neuroscience with developments in film and media theory to draw conclusions about how people understand real and mediated events.

The workshop will take place April 22-24, 2005. Visiting speakers will be housed at Clayton on the Park. Sessions will take place next door at the World Trade Center St. Louis (room 1013). The hotel and conference facility are about 1.5 mi West of the Hilltop Campus at Wash. U.

Map showing Clayton On the Park, 8025 Bonhomme Ave

Map showing the World Trade Center of St. Louis, 121 S Meramec Ave

	Sponsored by the PNP program
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Film A Workshop at Washington University
Everyday events are complex, dynamic, and fleeting. So too is film. How does the nervous system extract meaning from real or filmed events? Film theory, particularly that which is empirically oriented, has a lot to say to psychologists and neuroscientists about this problem. At the same time, recent research in cognitive neuroscience has implications for how the mind understands film. The goal of this workshop is to bring together recent research on perceptual psychology and neuroscience with developments in film and media theory to draw conclusions about how people understand real and mediated events.

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Film A Workshop at Washington University

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Film
A Workshop at Washington University