Abstract
This article is a précis of the book Flicker: Your Brain on Movies (Zacks 2014). Flicker aims to introduce a broad readership to the psychology and neuroscience that underlies their experience in the movie theater. The book covers a range of topics, including emotional experience, adaptation from texts to films, memory and propaganda, movie violence, film editing, and brain stimulation. Cutting across the specific topics are a few broad themes: the evolution of the brain and mind, the role of automatically evoked responses in film viewing, and the role of behavioral and neural plasticity in everyday experience.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-22 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Projections (New York) |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 1 2015 |
Keywords
- Editing
- Emotion
- Evolution
- Memory
- Neuroscience
- Psychology
- Violence
- Vision