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Psychology Department
| Cognition
of Cinema |
This course addresses the processes that occur in spectators’ minds as they watch a movie, from elementary processes (such as the perception of apparent motion) to higher level processes (such as hypothesis formation, narrative comprehension, and the experience of pleasure). The class will discuss and test the proposition that cinema conventions recruit fundamental psychological processes of perception and cognition that the human mind has evolved to perform.