however presented, simply an aspect of a stimulus-response mechanism on a par with the many more overt and sophisticated attempts to manipulate it, from the structuring of a TV soap to a mouthwash commercial, that
film’s overall texture, particularly in such downtime moments, is John Barry’s jazz score. Barry’s music weaves around the movie like blue cigarette smoke, signing it with teasing mystery and sad elegance, touched with that sonorous quality that was Barry’s special forte, befitting a ...
stimulus. A small child hearing a verbal joke relating to their body or body fluids will laugh, but not understand a joke about a more sophisticated adult topic like religion, culture or politics. Empathy can be in the form of romance, compassion or any other form of ...
Wertheimer and those after him looked for mechanisms of the mind that could complement the features of the stimulus responsible for apparent motion in its various forms.Footnote 19 Other studies of apparent motion, too, indicated that simple models of stimulus features alone could not explain apparen...
The perceived congruency between visuals and music seems related to the distance of each stimulus on the mood dimension. When subjects were asked what they thought was happening in the scene, the soundtrack previously rated as congruent led the majority of participants to one same interpretation of...
And of course he has made some great music. David Bowie seems a master of creative self-renewal. Whether he draws inspiration from established or new artists or his own past work, from painting or theater or books, he seems to grasp idea and mystery—stimulus for mind and spirit. Bowie’...
A bottom-up explanation likens film-viewing to highly automated detection of stimulus features physically given in the supply of images; a top-down one to the construction of scenes from very incomplete information using mental schemata. Early film psychologists tried to pinpoint critical features of...
The perceived congruency between visuals and music seems related to the distance of each stimulus on the mood dimension. When subjects were asked what they thought was happening in the scene, the soundtrack previously rated as congruent led the majority of participants to one sa...
An affective computing approach to physiological emotion specificity: Toward subject-independent and stimulus-independent classification of film-induced em... The hypothesis of physiological emotion specificity has been tested using pattern classification analysis (PCA). To address limitations of prior research...
one voice or 2000, is to bring to the ears of the listener the composer/lyricist's message. The human voice can be a powerful means of transferring the composer's intent. Chorus and orchestra can be so wedded in films that the listener receives a new, often thrilling, emotional stimulus....