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.
